When is the ticketing deadline after reservation
 

I plan to go RTW starting Seoul next March.
After the reservation is made by either travel agent or airline itself(I use JAL Office), is there time limit of ticketing after the reservation?
Such as "Ticket must be issued within 7 days after reservation"

We want to wait for ticketing until next year because fuel surcharge will be less after Jan 1.
ALso, since I am going Seoul next week, I will change US$ to Korean Currency at this time(make banker's check rather than change to bills).
I know I could lose some if US$ is getting stronger by the ticketing time, but the current rate is good enough for me.

Thanks in advance

The price is not fixed until the ticket is issued, so you may lose out if the base price in WON is increased.

There's no way you'll be able to hold all the reservations more than a week or so without a ticket number - airlines vary, but CX can be the worst - I had great difficulty a couple of months ago getting them to hold reservations even for a week whilst I got to Manila with my credit card to pay.

If you ticket through AA (or through a TA on AA stock) but have all your international segments on other airlines you won't pay any fuel surcharge anyway.

And you can issue through any AA office in Canada or the European Union and still pay the Korean price converted to the local currency at the current BPR. Reports seem to suggest that AA UK is the best way since they accept remote payment by credit card.

There is no general set 'issue by' date. Except that each airline can set their own ticketing deadline and will auto cancel within a certain number of days

Res booked through TAs may have a longer life span before being axed. CX though is infamous for cancelling their segments by a certain date, or within certain dates from booking if you're travelling during a peak period.

Best is for a TA to take over your booking and extend the ticketing deadline.

Thanks very much, christep & Guy Betsy

You are right!
This is the first time I use One World RTW.
I have done many time using * alliance, and I now remembered SQ always had short deadline and SQ put ticket deadline remarks on our reservation.

Using One world, can we buy ticket from any airline stock such as AA although the first segment is JAL.

Also, as christep mentioned, is there no fuel surcharge for RTW ticket?

Thanks again

AA will hold a reservation for 4-6 weeks.

Regardless of the ticketing deadline set by the issuing carrier, CX will automatically set a ticketing deadline for its own segments though this seems to vary wildy, I've had anything from 2 weeks to months.

There are fuel surcharges in principle, but some airlines do not collect them for other airlines. So if you issue on AA ticket stock and have no AA intercontinental flights (so no AA surcharges) then you will get no surcharges. If you issue exactly the same itinerary on CX or BA stock you will get a lot of surcharges because they collect their own and other carriers' surcharges.

In principle any OW carrier can issue any itinerary. In practice it can be hard to convince them if none of the long segments are on their flights. But certainly the ticket doesn't have to be issued by the carrier of the first flight.

Even as a CX Gold I have had CX ticketing deadlines of 7 days - possibly because it was HKG-JFK in A (a high demand route).