Originally Posted by
Compliance Brain
Hi Pandaperth (and all)
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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.
Yes.
Since the rule change last April, I do not recall anyone reporting that AA was still requiring the credit used for payment have a country of origin billing address. (IIRC it was only AA that did this, and it was only for ex-South Africa and ex-Japan itineraries.)
So, you should be able to use the on-line tool to book an ex-Japan itinerary and pay for it with your Hong Kong credit card - even when the ticketing carrier is AA. However I don't think anyone has reported successfully doing that.
I personally have purchased direct from AA an ex-Mozambique ticket, paying for it in Australia. The all-in price was converted from the country of origin currency to AUD. The telephone agents I worked with made no mention at all of credit card billing address or the like.
(I flew in to JNB yesterday, to spend a few weeks in Africa before I start this journey in early June
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