Originally Posted by
pandaperth
Looks like I did a sloppy job of checking the changes in the latest (2016-April-22) rule sheet, and I missed two items (at least!)
This post discusses what I think is the more significant item, and my next post will discuss the other item.
ajnaro has pointed out in another thread (
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...l#post26914209) that the wording of the "Sales Restrictions" section has changed
The pre April 22nd wording was (my bolding):
And the new wording is:
So, as
ajnaro said in his post^
So now I'm thinking of purchasing my next ex-Africa xONEx in Australia to avoid the FX fees my Australian CC provider charges
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Hi Pandaperth (and all)
Please excuse another simple question from on old newbie to this place. I had some posting more than a year ago about my buying a RTW ticket in to begin and end in NRT (I live in HKG) and found a friendly travel. agent who would work with me on this and take my Hong Kong credit card and sell the ticket.
I had to to do this because when I booked the ticket on line on the oneworld website for a ticket with a JPY everything worked until the end, when I got an indeterminate message that said "call AA RTW, you have a problem with your booking". AA RTW told me that I needed a credit card issued to a Japanese resident to make a booking for ticket with a JPY price, and that absent this credit card to use the online tool I needed to start my trip in HKG (and pay the HKG price).
Are you saying, or given these are rule changes and the real world may be different, both for on-line and agent purchases, that this is no longer the case? That if I work through the oneworld site and use my HKG credit card the RTW originating in NRT can be purchased? I could try it myself but perhaps someone has done it or not done it.Alternatively, does the rule mean that oneworld will now officially permit the practice my Japan travel agent has been doing to date.
Thoughts anyone? Thanks in advance.