Originally Posted by
jgold
...The way it was explained to me is that if I buy the ticket in Canada (i.e., if I am physically at the AA Canadian counter), I can use an AMEX with a U.S. billing address. Alternatively, I can pay by telephone without going to Canada (or from the steps of the Canadian embassy perhaps ...

), but in that case I would have to have the tickets sent to a Canadian address and the billing address would have to be in Canada. My understanding was that this was an either/or thing, not a both/and (i.e., I either had to have a Canadian billing address OR be physically in Canada at the AA ticket counter when I make the purchase). Is that understanding incorrect?...
I agree with your understanding. The explanation you were given sounds wrong to me.