Originally Posted by
zoombee
If you by ex-CAI then you are buying "in" Egypt and everything is paid for in Egyptian Pounds. Even the taxes/surcharges. It's just that the underlying price for various parts of the total fare are in different currencies which are each converted to Egyptian Pounds on the day you pay. So:
Base fare ex-CAI: priced in EGP
Taxes: priced in relevant local currency, so GBP for luxury tax for flight out of London Heathrow, HKD for airport tax for flight out of Hong Kong etc.
Fuel Surcharges: I wonder actually, probably the airline's "home" currency.
But when you pay you pay a singe fare in EGP (for ex-CAI) which is calculated by adding up all those components, based on the exchange rate on the day for non EGP priced items.
to make sure i understand it correctly:
lets say I buy a ticket today, 9.nov 2016, exchange rate is: 17:1 EGP:USD.
i start my trip whenever, and on Jan 1st 2017, I decide for my 2nd leg i want to change my flight lhr-mad-gru to smth like lhr-jfk-gru. I have to pay 100$ difference in airport fees/taxes/surcharges.
exchange rate at that date is 1:14.
do i have to pay 1700EGP or 1400EGP?
from what i understand from the quote I'd say 1400EGP, which is actually much cheaper than 100USD just because i "locked in" FX rate at the date of the purchase?? tbh seems to be good to be true, but what do i know, base LONE4 fare for less than 1000USD is to good to be true
