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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 11:21 am
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Originally Posted by christep
The taxes and surcharges when booked through CX will be substantially (hundreds of US$) greater than when booked through AA. I believe CX will hold unticketed reservations for 7 days (this was my experience recently when booking CX segments via the AA RTW desk).
Ah so. Now it's all starting to make sense. I should have initiated another ticket in Jakarta when I was there last month.

The situation with the difference in taxes and surcharges for the identical airlines/flights is pretty weird...wonder what's behind that? I could see a minor difference in ticketing fees ($25-50), but otherwise what is behind hundreds of dollars in differences in taxes and surcharges?

On this note, I wonder how this will change once the OW online booking/ticketing engine becomes operational?
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