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Mar 11, 2015, 5:34 pm

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Originally Posted by work2fly

I'm US based and need to purchase flights originating in SIN this summer.

I've been checking fares daily, using MI's Singapore based website. I've been hoping to take advantage of the SGD's slide against the USD, but it seems as the SGD slides, the quoted fares increase and remain constant in USD terms.

I'm guessing there's something that pegs fares to USD even though they are being quoted in SGD?

Don't buy fares on SQ ex SIN, they're always expensive. The S$ didn't depreciate that much against the US$.

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