Fair enough. I am currently on the phone to a very helpful and polite Qantas operative (in South Africa from the accent) who agrees with me that a change in date where ticketed points (other than the first sector) remain the same no change fee is chargeable. But he says his instructions are to charge USD125 anyway. I was polite but firm and in the end (an hour and ten minutes later) I persuaded him to make the chage and send it to ticketing with anote to them explaining why he did not charge the change fee demanded. Let's see what happens. What a palava, to the extent I almost paid up and got on with the rest of my day...

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Have seen reference to US$125 but now cannot find now on the QF web site
--> https://www.qantas.com/au/en/busines...e-of-fees.html

For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would book using anyone other than the AA RTW desk. OK, sure, that requires one AA coded over-water segment, but it seems to me a very small price to pay for knowledgeable and helpful agents who are readily available by telephone.

The oneworld on line RTW booking tool will often default to Qantas as the ticketing issuer.

Which of course raises the question of why anyone would use the online tool with all of its known problems.

I guess we're all used to the idea that online booking has to be the best option.
People hopefully learn after their mistakes.. but until then..

Did the same awhile back...moment of madness (had another thread on this). I want to upgrade to F and will try get AA to reissue it unless anyone else has last minute better ideas than ringing Qantas.

I echo this.
Just call AA RTW desk.

So here is what I did to get out of this situation: I range the AA RTW desk and spent a moment or two convincing the agent that since I was upgrading, there would be money for AA involved and so she should consider helping me. It didn't take to long to convince her because generally they are very helpful. We went through the flights one by one to get the A class needed and at the same time, and this was the clincher for her, she put both a BA over water and an Qantas over water on AA codeshare flights (actually, the BA flight had to be on the day before as she couldn't find A on the day I was originally booked...despite EF showing A availability).

It took quite some time, but she got through it and sent it for ticketing. It came back with nothing done for some reason, so she went back to the ticketing folks again and this time it worked. All paid and now under the control of AA instead of Qantas. Yipeee.

The only problem I have now is that when I try to reserve seats, all the airlines involved (BA, AA, QF, QR) say either that the ticket is issued by another airline or that the flight is with another airline and so I have to contact them...they all say this. Anyway, will ring the AA RTW desk to see if they can help clear this up.

Most of the time they can. I always have them book seats for me when I'm booking my ticket, occasionally the operating carrier won't confirm a seat assignment request, but most of the time AA RTW can do it.

If the itinerary does not pass through the US (Canada instead), are there any tricks to getting an AA coded flight to make booking with AA RTW desk viable? Alternatively, are there any other ways to avoid having Qantas issue the ticket?

There are times when a TA will convert the worst of times to the best of times while wandering
Fred

there are aa coded over-water flights that don't touch the US.

which ones? I’m not aware of any fifth freedom flights?

AA coded flights.
Not AA operated flights.
For example, LHR-YYZ can be coded as AA 6918 op by BA.