I restart my RTW next week flying to New Zealand continuing on to Bali in early Feb. At the moment, US citizens do not need a visa. Recent news media stories indicate that will change in Feb. I contacted the Indonesiand embassy in Washington and all they knew is that changes are coming and nothing more. I want to visit Bali, but the uncertain visa rules may be a problem if I am travelling abroad when the visa rule changes take effect.

So, I am in Hong Kong and I suddenly want to change the HKG-DPS�HKG segments to HKG-xxx-HKG. Can the CX office make such a change on short notice even if it is a BA issued RTW ticket? I will pay the change fee and additional taxes if any. I will not deal with BA. I would rather go to the dentist than deal with the BA RTW desk and its tariffs desk. Any info from Hong Kong based FT�ers would be greatly appreciated.

YEs - both the town office and the airport ticketing desk of CX are very good at handling OWE type tickets.

However, they are less happy to handle those issued on BA stock. I have used the BA ticket desk at the airport and the in town ticket office (shared with Qantas) and they have both also been excellent. The advantage of using the Qantas side of the shared office (in Jardine House) is that they don't try to charge you the BA GBP25 "do anything" fee in addition to the USD75 change fee for the ticket.

I also wouldn't get too worried about the visa changes to Indonesia.
The lastest 'probability' according to the postings on balitravelforum indicate that it is likely to be a $25.00US visa on arrival for a 30 day max stay.
They have fooled around with this for the past year, so it could be yet again postponed, but if not it shouldn't cramp your plans--and Bali is fun.