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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 7:42 pm
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Originally Posted by flyingnomad
Nevermind me. I actually meant that the T&Fs prices for identical itineraries (I.e. same origin) were sometimes meaningfully different depending on whether the BAEC account was US-registered or UK-registered.

However, that does not appear to be the case right now. So either the BA bug has fixed itself just to prove me wrong, or I imagined having seen the differential in the past.



BOS-LHR-BOS from a UK account



BOS-LHR-BOS from a US account



LHR-BOS-LHR from a UK account



LHR-BOS-LHR from a US account
The prices you quoted above in GBP and USD are actually identical if you use Friday's London 4:00 PM fixing for the GBPUSD FX rate, which is what UK-based BA probably does. https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies/fx-fixings

After the UK/European markets closed on Friday there was a major sell-off in equities and the GBP also took a hit against the USD, so Friday's GBPUSD closing FX rate (the New York 5 PM fixing) was quite a bit lower than the London 4:00 PM fixing. If you used google or any FX websites when you made the GPBUSD conversion earlier, since the FX markets reopen at 10:30 PM UK time on Sunday, you would have applied Friday's closing price, which is the same as the New York 5 PM fixing, whereas BA applied Friday's London 4:00 PM fixing.

Needless to say this would have worked in the opposite way had the GBP risen against the USD after Friday's London 4:00 PM fixing.
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