Everyone is now agreeing that because of DFW-ANC is not yet open for booking, this itinerary cannot be issued as an e-ticket.

So our options now:

1. Remove ANC, issue ticket with 16 e-ticket segments, wait until the first 4 segments are flown (sometime in late Jan/early Feb 2009), then add ANC and reissue still as an e-ticket.
2. Leave as a 16 segment, machine printed paper ticket, which will allow us to confirm ANC as soon as it's bookable (Nov 2008?). Advantage of this is that the image of the ticket is in the system which enables ticket offices to see it. However, we still need to physically bring the ticket to an office for re-issue.
3. Book the full 20 segments now, hand written paper ticket. Will take hours to get issued now, will make re-issue fairly painful. However, no worry about possible reduction of xONEx to 16 segments. Small possibility that no reissue is needed.

Are my assumptions correct? If so, I think right now I am leaning towards the first option, just because of the e-tickets.

Any suggestions or comments?