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Old Feb 8, 2014 | 4:29 am
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Originally Posted by gkyip
I'm not sure where the £3 came from in my case, I didn't really ask too much detail but as for currency exchange rates being a factor I'm not too sure on that as my upgrade was for LHR-HKG so surely there were no/minimal charges in HKD or another currency?
But was the underlying ticket a LHR-HKG-LHR round-trip? If so, then AIUI all the TFC on the ticket are repriced on reissue even if the only change to the booking is to the LHR-HKG sector. So you could still be affected by exchange rate movements.

If it was a LHR-HKG one-way ticket, then it may just be that one of the items had increased by £3 since the original ticket issue date. At the moment, ITA says that the TFC on a one-way LHR-HKG ticket are:-
Code:
United Kingdom Air Passengers Duty (GB)		£166.00
United Kingdom Passenger Service Charge (UB)	 £39.75
BA YQ surcharge (YQ)				£179.50
If you compare that to the breakdown on your original e-ticket receipt, that might show you what has increased.
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