Dr, do a few of these, and you will soon find the difference between "booking" and "ticketing". An (ill trained) agent can book you on whatever you want. You want to book JAL to Tokyo? Fine. You want to do 18 transcons? Have a blast. But the "final" say will be from tariffs, who has the decision of denying the itinerary or of charging you a bucket of bucks to do it. Though, I suppose the actual "final" say is up to you and whether you want to pay for it... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

well....if this is from RTW desk, they will not make such kind of OBVIOUS mistake.
once it is ticketed, it is a 'contract'. as long as you do not reissue/reroute, people will only be focused on the segment you are flying, and ignore the 'global' picture of your ticket

Pegasus, I will drop it with this, but I assure you that they are capable of making a mistake like this. I had an RTW agent that couldn't even read a tariffs code to me. hell, I can read one if you just give me the letters and numbers. I have 2 agents that are very good that I ask for by name, otherwise it is hit and miss. It took 3 weeks to ticket a reasonably simple itinerary, which was finally ticketed the day before I left. Get a printout of the star rules, because no matter what the agent says, it means nothing in the end. I seeeeeriously doubt that AA drops the transcon rule without dropping down to 4 n/a segments. Why would they when Australia just put the rule *into* effect?

Finally the cat is out of the bag http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif With considerable help from fellow FTs and brilliant suggestions from Hagabard and Darren and others I have now purchased the following First class RTW OW ticket for $5050.95 all taxes and an extra segment included. Total base miles 65000+ Total actual miles 162500.Achieved AA Platinum status
Routing:
arn-lhr-mia-msy-sea-mia-dfw-lax-sju-jfk-syd-per-mel-akl-syd-hkg-del-hkg-bom-hkg-lhr-mct-lhr-arn