Just wondered has anyone had recent experience using AA to isse Oneworld RTW/Multi Continent products?

Are they still skipping YQ/YR consistently and the fare being a bit cheaper.

I am thinking of doing a DCIR22 soon ex HKG and wanted to see whether I should use CX (advantage is I can hold the reservations longer and get better service - due to DM) or AA (which is not bad, but when I change date and time there is a bad issue with Sabre where it requires a reissue of the ticket which causes problems with the synchronisation of the booking some of the time on non AA/Sabre airlines.
Also with AA they sort of force you to take the codeshare flights which has less availability and when you want to change to the actual carrier I have encountered resistence.

If the difference is only 1-200USd I might forgo this.

I booked an AONE4 with AA using codeshares ex-JNB. My notes show that for JNB-JFK BA's YQ was ZAR5246, AA's YR was ZAR2083, a difference of about USD320. If you're comfortable with ITA you can extract that information fairly easily.

You could always have the AA RTW desk price a ticket, and then have CX do the same.

BTW, the AA RTW desk is usually good about booking the non-codeshare if you prefer, as long as there are some AA flights. You could always book it originally with codeshares and then call later and switch.

You can also use ITA - it lists the fees and taxes so you can see how carriers compare on any given segment[s]. Rather instantly, compared with waiting for the rate desk.

Good point. I do use it, but I have problems getting it to use specific carriers and flights. I can never seem to get the routing language right.