Originally Posted by
pandaperth
1. There was a rule change back in April which now means you can purchase a ticket anywhere and what you pay is the country of origin price converted to the currency of country of sale, at the bank selling rate. So as an example, in July I purchased an ex-MPM DONE6 from AA and paid for it in AUD. So you can telephone the AA RTW desk and set up your ticket and pay for it USD
Panda - first thanks for prompt reply! So this a reversal of what happened via AA before? Where they'd nix anyone with non SA based CC for ex-JNB? I had to book my most recent (Jan 2016) via BA because of that issue.
In terms of Europe-ME, I'm going MPM-DOH-ORD same day at the start and planning to revisit for stopover at tail end. Thanks for the heads up on AAs softening on that rule as well.