Interesting ^

Can the keyword not be added in before?

why is QR not pulling the CAI fare?

YQ?
 

How does YQ work on these tickets?

Right now my ticket has YQ of $500, 16 segments.
It's an 081 ticket issued by Qantas.

It has no BA segments, but if I was to change (after flying a couple segments) from JFK TXL on AB to BA TATL, how is YQ handled?

I understand the $125 fee

If this on the same route and only a carrier/date change it should not be a reissue. That is no $125 fee. Some airlines charge a service fee. A date change can invoke different real taxes due to different taxes on stop overs compared to transits.

If you are changing route that a reissue

rtw is a complicated product and agents dont want to do a recalculation unless necessary... i would incline that changing carriers may trigger a new tax but it is most likely wont happen

In theory whatever YQ BA would charge on the leg would be added to the ticket. [And a change in the tax/fees line would require a ticket reissue.]

But that is up to the issuing agent to calculate.

By same route, lets say I have
TXL-AUH-DOH on AB/QR and change it to TXL-CDG-DOH on AB/QR, same date - there should not be a change fee?

Interesting re YQ. Lets hope it doesnt add it.

How are changes usually handled on these, it has to go thru the issuing carrier, right? So I guess Qantas? Do they have a special desk?

That's not the same route. You're changing one of the ticketed points from CDG to AUH. It requires a reissue.

Any oneworld airline can take ownership of the ticket once the first flight coupon has been used (so once you've taken one flight).

However it will probably be easiest to talk to the issuing airline.

why do other airlines want to take over the ticket? the issuing carrier had received the cash, would the takeover carrier receive the money if they take over a ticket? even during irregular operation like i experienced a few days ago, aa just exchanged the coupon bos lax and use it for payment for bos dfw lax. (i flew 17 segments as a. result.) when qr sees my pnr, it still sees bos lax doh instead of bos dfw lax doh.

ok good to know. I will try with Qantas first once the first few flights are flown.

Hopefully a change from AB to BA will not require a huge upcharge in YQ.

Has anyone been able to purchase a QR RTW ex-CAI and if so, how did you do It?

If I convert a layover into a stopover, does that require a reissue? Specifically, if I have SYD-NRT-KUL as the first set of flights, but I want to fly SYD-NRT "right now" and leave NRT-KUL and all the onwards flights unchanged; can I just move SYD-NRT to "next week" while leaving the rest of the ticket to later in the year? Do not plan on changing carriers or anything else.