It seems that adverse consequences are rare, but we shouldn't encourage it, nor individually develop a habit, because it could well be pursued by the airline.

I seem to recall ages ago that a major consulting firm used to book all its transatlantic travel as oneway LHR-JFK + oneway JFK-LHR-CPH and dropping the last segment. I don't know whether the airline pursued them but it would seem a likely target for the revenue management team!

If this was true then I'm sure there were consequences, given the firm's contract with the airline.

What would you do?
 

Oh Bother, I just realized why it's one flight with two segments. Can't have a more than 24 hour layover in Europe once you have done the Europe and US parts of the RTW and are in the ASIA part to return to OSL.

So, now I am nervous about using the same airline in HEL to get to DFW if I no show them earlier the same day.

The other option is to add a 2 stop flight to get from OSL to DFW. Currently don't see a good option for this using AA miles. Would probably book Iceland air if we need to pay cash.

Only bright side of that option is that I might change the HKG OSL to be on Qatar Business vs Finnair Business.

What would you do? Any creative ideas out there? Thanks for all help.

I don't think AY will care much if you miss your HEL-OSL. If you have checked-in baggage, you may have some struggle negotiating the short checking and while AY is usually pretty lenient there you never know for 100%.

The one thing I would do is not to have the same ff number on the two tickets.

Second ticket is an award ticket
 

Well so far both tickets have the AAdvantage number on them. But the HEL DFW is an award so no miles. I'm not even sure how not have the ff number on the ticket??

The rule is that you cannot have more than two stopovers in the continent of origin.
Your choice whether you have two at the start, two at the end, or one at the start and one at the end.

How many such stopovers did you have at the start? If less than two, then you can change HEL from a transit to a stopover.

(For completeness - transit means 24hrs or less between flights, stopover means more than 24hrs between flights; the term layover is not used in the rules.)

I had two stopovers already. Now in the North Am part. The Asia part ends in March 2025. Thanks.

For the award ticket you probably can't remove the ffp number because it's where the 'payment' came from. For the cash ticket it should be possible; at least you should be able to change it (maybe to a dummy number) and then claim the miles later 'because for some reason there was a wrong ffp number on the boarding pass'.

It's a long story but I almost learned it the hard way years ago not have the same ffp number on two conflicting itineraries.

Thanks for the heads up. I am trying to make sure I don't learn a lesson the hard way by getting my RTW return fixed now.

Worked on the last leg. I rebooked my last flight that was on Finnair HKG-HEL-OSL to a day earlier on Qatar HKG-DOH-OSL. The AA RTW phone person insisted that there was a change fee of $125 per ticket. The taxes were lower so she took my card for $114.147 each ticket. I thought if the ticketing points did not change there would be no change fee?

I think I finally have the ticket the way I want it now. That's good, just not sure what to do about the fee.

Thanks to everyone.

Your ticketed points did change from HKG-HEL-OSL to HKG-DOH-OSL
Therefore the change fee was USD125

Thanks for the answer
 

HA, if only the agent had explained it that way. She said "since you changed your airline and date of travel there is a change fee".

I made the assumption (HA) that I was booking HKG to OSL as the ticket points... Live and learn.

Unfortunately routing does matter as well. I haven't figured out for sure if changing carriers on the same route triggers a change fee or not, but even if not that could still trigger a YQ / YR difference.

I've only done it for AA to JL on a ticket that had YQ but was doing other changes at the same time that needed the $125 fee anyway. AA's and JL's YQ tend to be very close, at least the routes I've used on xONEx. I also did a change from AA code to QF code once, but it was an ex-Japan with no YQ anyway, so there wasn't any noticeable difference, that happened pre-ticketing so no $125 fee.

The rules are pretty clear on this, it doesn't.


Rule 16(a).1.b, Rebooking/Rerouting Prior to Departure:
Rule 16(a).2.b, Rebooking/Rerouting After Departure:
The $125 fee is only imposed for changes to ticketed points. No difference between stops and connections. Notwithstanding the reluctance of some carriers to follow the rules, these are quotes from the published rules. If the people who issued your ticket won't follow them, it's time to find someplace else to buy these tickets.