Back in November, I called the AA RTW desk in DFW and book an itinerary originating in BUD (Hungary) and bought an Explorer. It was the ex-BUD price converted into U.S. dollars. I wanted to ticket it at an AA CTO but I did not have time to do so when I was in the U.S. back then. I had a U.S. travel agent issue the ticket and sent it to my address in Japan.

Guy Betsy's notation basically means you can buy in the U.S. an Explorer ex-any city in the world for the price in that originating country (converted into U.S. dollars).

You can't do this in most other countries. In Japan, for instance, you can only buy an Explorer originating in Japan. (We used to be able to issue a much lower-priced ex-SEL (Korea) in Tokyo but no longer.)

Unless AA has changed its rules, I bet you can buy an ex-YVR fare Explorer in Seattle.

You have to start the jounry from the originating city, YVR, though.

[This message has been edited by Chiangi (edited 01-08-2001).]