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Old Mar 30, 2010 | 4:56 am
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Originally Posted by trooper
Well then... how about we all just write "RT"....

Then Americans will read it as "Round trip", and the rest of us will see it as as "return"....

In the same way that when I see "3" it is "three".. when a German sees it it is "drei" and so on.....
Good idea. I should like to make a note of caution here. Using acronyms that are also airline codes should be avoided.

When a poster writes LHR-JFK $450 AI, he/she might mean the fare is $450 inclusive of taxes. But it could also mean the fare is $450 on Air India.
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