I already changed a date & flight # before starting my trip. It was a fairly simple process. It was a JAL flight & I called JAL. It was for my last segment SEA-NRT. There were no fees but I had to pay a small amount because the tax amount had changed since they had issued the original ticket (less than $10/ticket). Not sure if they "reissued" the ticket or simply made the change at the time. When I initially bought the tickets, I tried to go through the AA RTW desk. They were helpful but at the end, the tickets were a lot more expensive as they would not honor the price I was getting from the Oneworld RTW site for my itinerary. They said I had to call JAL (my first flight) to get that price. So that is what I did.

I will let you know how this all turns out. Thanks!

So, including the land segments and transits (15 segments)? ---> Great Circle Mapper
NRT-DEL-DOH-SOAGRU-EZE-SCL-LIM-MDE-MIA-MEX-DFW-SNA-SEA-HKG-BKK-NRT


North America & Asia---> http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=MDE-MIA...T&MS=wls&DU=mi
MDE-MIA-MEX-DFW-SNA-SEA-HKG-BKK-NRT

A good value ticket :)
And before LATAM leaves OW

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Alternative route (but not sure of OK, by the rules)-----> http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=MDE-MIA...T&MS=wls&DU=mi
MDE-MIA-MEX-DFW-SNA-SEA-LAX-KIX-BKK-NRT
You need D class seat availability

Edit 2
SOA to GRU
SOA Sonora Municipal Airport, TX is wrong-----> São Paulo GRU

Yes! With all the great advices I got here & from Trip Advisor forum (Thank you Gardyloo!), I made the most of it. I also only paid a little under 8K for each ticket, all in Business Class, by starting in Tokyo. Very happy with the whole thing so far. Especially with the QSuites we had with Qatar Airways for the 15 hrs flight DOH-SOA. Really all our flights have been really comfortable & the service has been great with all the Airlines we used so far (JAL, Qatar & LATAM)

You have been given excellent advice here from the experts.
if I may add my experience with a BA issued ticket 2 years ago on an Aone5. I had a mle -hkg-sin- Mel segment that was made impossible by a schedule change by CX. After working with the BA gold desk and not finding a routing that did not add 3 more days to the trip I asked the agent for a routing not allowed by the rules the agent asked a supervisor. I requested a routing on qr male-doh-Mel and in a day or so it was approved, even though I backtracked through doh again in first class on a qr A380! On another rtw an aone6, I had a routing syd-doh-cai. Egypt banned flights from Doha so I was routed syd- doh-amm-cai. Three weeks before departure there was a schedule change making connections impossible so I asked an received a change with an illegal routing: syd-sin-lhr-cai. So many things are possible with a flight cancellation I’d you can get a supervisor to ok it. It would be possible. But the flight cancellation has to occur first.
i hope this helps.
Good luck!

I believe their trip began in Japan, so transiting Japan en route to BKK would be a no-no.

Hope I'm posting in the right forum and apologies if i'm not !!....Currently on a DONE4 issued by AA with the last leg being MEL-HND with QF....overnighting in HND and the following day beginning another DONE4 issued by AA with the first sector being HND-LHR on BA6....my question is if QF cancel the last leg for any reason presumably going tech and i'm delayed by a day am I protected on my first flight with BA ?...Have been doing this for many many years without any issues thinking that having an overnight is sufficient time but now wondering do I need to build in an extra day ?...Thanks in advance for any assistance...Cheers

Update
 

UPDATE: Well everything is working out good so far. I just spoke with an English speaking agent from JAL. I told him that Cathay had cancelled our flight & rebooked us a day earlier. I explain we did not want to loose a day & that we would prefer not transiting through Hong Kong considering the situation. I told him we would prefer flying with JAL & transiting through Tokyo. I was prepare to plead but he just said "no problem" & offered me 2 dates to choose from. I told him the date we would prefer & he gave me all the information for the flights SEA-NRT-BKK & gave me our seats assignments. I told him I wanted to make sure we would not lose our flight later in the year back to Tokyo to complete our RTW since we had started in Tokyo & we were now transiting through Tokyo. He said not to worry, since it was only a transit it would not invalidate the rest of our ticket. I asked him if this would automatically cancelled our re-booked flight with Cathay or if I needed to do something else. He said, he would take care of it. He said I can log online & see all the changes. I waited a few minutes & logged on line & saw all the new changes.

The only thing is now it says "Status on hold" "Holding period Fri 28 Feb". But I think that is just a formality when there a change. At least I hope.

It was so easy this time, I actually had to pinch myself. Thank you for all the help & support! I'll let you know if anything changes.

Everything resolved
 

Yay! Our tickets are not on hold anymore. Website is showing "ticketed" with the new routing & new flights. Very happy. Thanks again for all the support!

An excellent idea! Thank you for taking it on.

A few thoughts:

• I think that, in general, more information is better than less, especially if it's organized into subsections, and so I'd suggest not being too eager to delete less-frequently asked questions (such as booking codes).
• Archiving this thread and starting it anew from 2020 on, as is done in many other threads, seems like a good idea, and less confusing than giving the new thread a new title.
• Personally, I prefer all information in one place that is easily searched in the browser (e.g., search for "backtrack" and find the section on backtracking) rather than links to other threads or other places.

You need to cross both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So, you could do Europe-NA-SA-NA-Australia-Europe, but you'd be paying for Asia anyway, so you may as well visit there too. You could even do two visits to Asia as well as two to North America, e.g., Europe-Asia-NA-SA-NA-Australia-Asia-Europe.

This is helpful and a great way to explain it. You might also want to mention at the start that the rules require crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans once and only once, as I think that is easier for most people to grasp the concept, and then explain about the TCs.

I completely agree that the level of hassle in making changes has gone way up, and the reluctance of many airlines (including AA) to take over an RTW makes things far more difficult.

On the issue of reissuing, one reason AA insists on reissuing the ticket is that it is far more reliable when there are Amadeus airlines on the itinerary. Since AA doesn't charge for reissuing, what is the objection to reissuing?

AA's policy is to protect on separate tickets if both are OneWorld, so that's good. On the other hand, changing the date of the first flight of an RTW usually forces a re-price, unless it's treated as an involuntary change. I'd say it depends on getting a good AA RTW agent.

Thanks so much anabolism :tu:

I think you meant Amadeus (everyone but AA and LA)?