Originally Posted by
jgold
This is a follow-on question to the OP's original statement about arriving at the AA ticket desk at YYZ, and waiting around until lunch for the RTW ticket to issue. I'm going to be picking up my DONE5 at YYZ next weekend and had been told that I could have the ticket ready for me to pick up (i.e., just show up and pay). One difference is that, although my ticket is 20 segments, only 15 of those are flown, which apparently means that it's a paper PRINTED ticket, rather than handwritten. Would that be the difference between the OP's situation? We're flying into YYZ and then flying out of BUF, so that we can spend two days at Niagara Falls (this is how I convinced my wife to fly to Canada to purchase a plane ticket), and I'd prefer not to waste too much of the day hanging around the airport. Thanks.
I remember reading some of your posts (talking your wife into going to TO
).
I was told the same thing by the AA rtw desk; however, when I actually arrived at 6:00am to pick up the ticket ----- a different story. They don't prepare the ticket in advance even if the AA rtw desk requests this. The CDN AA staff want to see you in person before they begin the task. I too had what they considered paper PRINTED tickets too and it took 6 hours for our 4 tickets with the AA employee taking no breaks (she told me she would be paid overtime as I apologized for her carpal tunnel syndrome). I also lucked out with an experienced (older) woman who knew how to do these tickets -- scared the $##$^ out of the initial woman who looked at our ITIN.
Kevin