Originally Posted by
sony2012
thanks, I bought one ex-Cai for this year so I don't have any room to squeeze another one ex-JP but doesn't YQ not apply only for the first segment, not the entire trip? I thought the rule about YQ only applied to ex-JP departure, I am not sure if it would apply to the entire RTW ticket or just the JP departure only....
Anyway, I am closely watching the USD/JPY rate and alternatively i can hedge by selling my USD now and keeping it on JPY for the time being.
Nope, it's the entire journey. Actually let me rephrase that... I have 2 ex-TYO tickets to reference, one QF issued and one CX issued. The CX one doesn't have a sniff of YQ on it, just a small amount of YR. The QF one has 30,000 JPY of YQ on it and similar YR to the CX ticket. It's nothing like the $1000-3000 YQ you get on ex-CAI or ex-OSL tickets. I'd love to know which carrier the YQ on the QF ticket was attributed to, I'd say quite likely QF itself but even at 30,000 JPY it's miniscule when that itinerary had HND-SYD and SYD-DFW on it as QF codes. My other carriers on that ticket were quite similar to my CX ticket, AA, QR, JL, I think that's it. I always pack a bunch of QR segments onto these, I did have AKL-DFW on a QF code on the CX ticket but they must not charge the QF YQ ex-TYO (again assuming that's the carrier that triggered it on the QF ticket).