Originally Posted by
olm022
...or for flexibility... Can't forget the day when I was handed in my ticket from Japan to Europe paid by the Japanese government. The ticket was booked in Y77OW - a fare bucket that, according my LH friend, has never been booked by him in his 10+years of working for LH. The price for this economy JP-EU ticket was a mere of 700000 yen, which at that time amounted to ca. 6000 EUR.
I think that's intended to be a camouflaged subsidy from the government to the airline.
HTB.