Originally Posted by
NDFan
Does anybody know for sure if it is possible or not?
It is not
supposed to be done as the flown segments are
supposed to be reflected in the itinerary to be reissued, but it can and will be reissued as an eticket most of the time as writing out a paper ticket is extremely labour-intensive and most AAgents would try to avoid it.
Originally Posted by NDFan
Japan office also implied that that it could only be reissued as eticket if there were no open segments, but I thought you could have open segments on an eticket?
AA's systems can't seem to produce etickets with open segments.
Hmm... so come mandatory eticketing, we'd not be allowed to have open segments?
Originally Posted by NDFan
While speaking to the AA RTW office, he told me that as of June 1st (when paper tickets can no longer be issued at all) RTW tickets will be limited to maximum 16 segments. Does anybody know if this is true?
This rumour has been discussed extensively elsewhere on the oneworld forum. I only hope that the AAgent you spoke to was right about the 01JUN date as it's give me some time to issue my next itinerary yet.
Out of interest - what if i issue an itinerary under the old rules, and somehow need to reissue the ticket after the mandatory eticketing deadline. Obviously there'd be certain things under the old rules that wouldn;'t be possible with compulsory eticketing, such as the 20 segment allowance. But even if in theory they need to honour the old rules, isn't it virtually impossible to create a paper ticket after 31MAY (as paper ticket stock will no longer be created, IATA shutting down paper ticket clearance processes etc). So what happens in that case, if I require a paper ticket after 31MAY?