But if you have a reservation then the seat is yours, as the seat is subtracted from the inventory at the time of the reservation, rather than at time of purchase. At least, that's what I always thought.

My understanding too, but I was just being cautious in booking with NRT - didn't want to add complexity to the process in case things weren't as easy as they turned out to be. Next time I'll be more bold/proactive. Worked out okay anyway.

I'm definitely going to just ticket a limited number of sectors jut to make me feel better -- besides, I know I'll be reticketing anywy and once I get back to SFO I'll feel better

Steve

Has anyone received an official answer of whether a "post 01-April" re-issue of a "pre 01-April" ticket will be allowed to be reissued with JL/MA/RJ segments?

The policy always has been you fly what you started with. No reason to expect it'll change. Works both ways so when someone leaves you can continue to fly them for the validity of your ticket.

The agents that I have worked with in the past tell me that the t & c at the time of ticket issue govern. That's why a copy of the tariffs are kept for a few years as number_6 has posted many times.

Although it's a far cry now from MRU as in the thread topic, I thought I'd add my own tale to Gardyloo's experience ex-NRT. I set up the itinerary with the RTW desk, and just got off the phone with AA in Tokyo to have it issued. The lady spoke very good English, so no problems there. She initially claimed that CX would have to issue the ticket, as my first flight (NRT-HKG) is with them. We argued a bit, she put me on hold for a while, and then said it'd be no problem to issue the ticket.

It should be an e-ticket as I canceled enough segments from my original itinerary to keep the count below 16, including open-jaws. We did the whole credit-card thing, and then she proceeded to read back the entire trip to me, flight by flight. I didn't really have the heart to stop her. Anyway, here's hoping all goes well with the issuing of the e-ticket as time is starting to run short.

All in all a very pleasant experience with the AA RTW desk as well as with AA Tokyo. ^

I am a traditional BA.com booker and enjoying the dialogue and the prospect of savings $ so leading back to the original thread. Received my travel information and fare from MRU very favorable. CX HKG to JNB as penultimate flight shows available in D (no A as seasonal) on Expert flyer but on my BA.com shows waitlisted. Had rung BA USA prior to moving booking to MRU Monday and they said available and would take 24 hours to clear. Now its 72 hours later and still says available C7 J9 D9. Was thinking of calling CX to get confirmed then will buy first ticket. Any ideas.

Also thinking about second and subsequent MRU RTW anti clockwise works best for me so entering MRU via JNB from Asia or Australia so can go in on QF from Oz or CX from HKG so that allows me to connect from ICN and NRT via HKG. When in India looks like have to return to HKG the to JNB. Is there any other way.

You don't have to wait for the ticket to be issued to chase reservations. I have no idea why your CX flight hasn't cleared if there's D9 availability. Make sure that your BAEC number is in the PNR, and also ask BA for the CX record locator (this will be different from the Amadeus PNR that BA uses). Then call CX to see if they can confirm the flight.

There are no direct India to Africa flights on oneworld, so you're stuck having to back via HKG.

I am now midway on a AONE5 issued from MRU and I have found that they are they are excellent even at booking open dated segments immediately over the phone or by email. In some places like India the RTW awareness is very low with BA and Qantas and this can be a real hassle as they want you to fax the ticket or go to their office or some such thing. Also, the Qantas office in Mumbai even told me that they could not book flights on Qantas as the ticket was on BA paper and only BA could do so !!! I have found Cathay to be the best at making reservations on open dated segments over the phone outside the US.

I have now set up 2 RTW tickets ex MRU and have CONFIRMED on all legs except 1 on Cathay and 1 on AA. MRU were able to CONFIRM a HKG-JNB stand alone but it remained waitlisted in the RTW booking not sure why they did this. AA on the other hand show A3 available but the agent said she could not change from WAITLISTED as the fare was held by BA MRU. I wondered what normal practise is in this situation.

It's perfectly OK to have multiple reservations for different bits of the journey. Ticketing and reservations are pretty much separate things. All you have to make sure is that the ticket number is inserted in all the reservations.

Christep could you just explain a bit more what you mean so I can tell BA MRU
I don't quite follow

I have a RTW ,,,,,,,,,,ICN-HKG-JNB(WAITLISTED) JNB_MRU CONFIRMED
and under seperate locator HKG-JNB CONFIRMED

Get them to change the HKG-JNB to OPEN and issue the ticket. Then get them to put put the xONEn ticket number in the confirmed HKG-JNB reservation.

Alternatively, ask BA for the underlying CX PNRs for the two reservations then call CX directly, explain the situation to them and ask them to confirm the segment with the big PNR and then release the standalone one.

Slightly OT.

I tried looking around, and was wondering if someone could tell me how much approximately does a RTW from MRU actually cost in D or A?

Naturally it would vary depending on the route, date, etc I imagine, but say if I were to fly to 4 or 6 large hubs (MRU-LHR-JFK-HKG-MRU)...

Not too sure if this is a naive question in itself, but I've never done a RTW, except once from BOM a long time ago.