Procedures for a Lost/Stolen Ticket...
 

Before heading off on my RTW, I'm wondering if the possibilty of losing the ticket needs to be covered with separate travel insurance.

I couldn't find any details on whether these could be reissued if you had a photocopy of the original for example or whether there are One World procedures for this. Maybe some of you out there have encountered or needed to look into this before?

If One World has policies in place for this kind of thing that would be great; otherwise the travel insurance policy that I'm gonna get will definately have to cover this possibility.

Thanks in advance!

Until the people who really know the contract rules chime in, I think you'd be in a world of hurt if you lost an ONEx enroute. I think the airline that issued the ticket would only offer a partial refund per the un-used-portion rules, and that only after the year's validity is up, and meanwhile you'd be stuck somehow paying for your continued transportation.

It is exactly the same as for any other lost ticket. As long as you have the ticket number (and having a photocopy of the ticket is more than enough for that) you will have no problem, particularly if you can go to the office of the airline issuing the ticket (otherwise it may be a 24 hour delay). They will invalidate the lost/stolen ticket and issue a replacement (same routing and terms). If your ticket happens to be used prior to you reporting it then it gets sticky -- you are liable to pay the cost of the used segments (but how likely is that these days, with security checking that passport and ticket matches? all the instances that I have heard about were clearly pre-arranged fraud in shady 3rd world countries). They may require a police report. If you want a refund instead of a replacement ticket (why?), the normal refund rules apply except any payment is delayed for 90 days (waiting for the stolen ticket to clear the system from siberia or some other obscure location).

I wish I could use a OWE to get to Siberia -particularly Kamchatka!