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Old Jun 27, 2012 | 7:04 am
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vroom
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Originally Posted by shore9
The ticket was in USD, converted to CAD on my credit card. AC reversed the charge in USD and cancelled that ticket and issued a new ticket and charged it in CAD over the phone.
Unless the exchange rate changed dramatically between the purchase and the reversal, you're still going to be out a little bit because the bank charges a fee for foreign currency conversions. The exchange rate on the purchase is about 2.5% higher than the "posted" USD-CAD rate, while the exchange rate on the return is about 2.5% lower than the posted rate. (Same as buying and returning items at a store when shopping in another country.) That's out of AC's hands: you'll have to take it up with your bank if you want that difference reversed. Good luck.
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