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QRC3288
I didn't check, but with ex-outport fares as cheap as they are, perhaps my $4k HKG-AKL ticket was more expensive than ex-somewhere else. That almost always seems to be the case when I buy ex-HKG tickets, that it would've been cheaper to start somewhere else. In which case the bidding price for your example doesn't make any sense to me.
Indeed. I recently bought HEL-AMS-HKG-AKL return in J for a little less than USD 3,000. Y would have been a little over USD 1,000 (not that I would do such a trip in Y).