Originally Posted by
teemuflyer
What is this "Canadian Exception" that all of you are referring to?
When travel originates in a country for which a specific local currency fares is published and the ticket is sold in another country, the fare will be that published for the country of origin converted to the currency of the country of sale at the bank selling rate. The resultant fare must not be lower than from the country of sale.
Exception: Not applicable for sales made and/or travel originating in Canada or when BOTH travel originates and sales are made within the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA)/Switzerland.
eg: If I am buying a ticket in Australia (country of sale) for travel starting in Japan (country of origin), I would ideally pay the Japan price converted to AUD. However, as the Australia price is more then the Japan price, I instead have to pay the Australian price.
The "Canadian Exception" voids that - if the country of sale for the same ticket was Canada instead of Australia, I would pay the JPY price converted to CAD.
In 2010, I booked a DONE3 departing Tokyo from Australia via the online tool. I paid the the Japan price in JPY.
Early in 2011, some bugs popped up in the online tools booking system related to different systems talking to each other (eg, Amadeus and Sabre) which prevented a booking from completing. As a result, I was unable to book my 2011 DONE3 (departing Korea) via the tool. I instead had to make use of a travel agent in Canada to process the booking and I paid the KRW price converted into CAD (which my bank then converted to AUD).