Originally Posted by
NDFan
If it needs to be reissued prior to first flight, it will be issued under the new rules and therefore max 16 segments.
Yes, I do see how that argument could apply, but it also seems strange that you would then effectively not be able to change the first flight at all if you have a 20-segment ticket. Based on the different experiences people are having with this, I suspect in the end it will come down to how one specific office chooses to interpret or apply the rules.
Anyway, hopefully I won't need to change the date and that will be easy, but it is ex-CMB and I'll be coming from JNB via HKG, so a few things could go wrong. We'll see.