Originally Posted by
zoombee
Are you able to say more about this? There's still YQ but maybe varying by airline there seems to be less than other origins but I couldn't find any info on how much less or how it works. E.g. is it just the YQ for the first segment that's less? Or just for some airlines (marketing? ticketing)?
Fuel surcharges are regulated in Japan. So there is a tiny bit of YQ on ex-Japan tickets, but it's so negligible that it doesn't matter. They do have YR, which is also a fuel surcharge, but it's a lot less than YQ ex-CAI, ex-OSL, etc. So even if the Japan price is a bit higher, once you build your itinerary, if you're using a bunch of high YQ carriers (QF, BA, MH, and I believe CX as well) then ex-Japan can work out less overall.
I recall people posting with prices from other countries and were talking $2k+ in fuel surcharges alone, for ex-Japan it should be less than $400 regardless of carriers chosen.