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Old May 15, 2012 | 7:36 am
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Originally Posted by ebd
3) Most infuriating, on my most recent attempt to book a ticket, I was informed that United is now going to start faring the RTW tickets based on billing address country, versus country of origin. THIS IS CLEARLY AGAINST THE POSTED STAR ALLIANCE RULES which are on the Star website! How is United allowed to do this? [/B]
Apparently there was a rule change effective May 1 that made this the
standard practice again. You will have to again go back to using
the Canadian exception, and find a Canadian travel agent.

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