Originally Posted by serfty
Yes there would have been a credit card fee charged by the CMB office. By using TT saved me about USD180.
I do have two available alternate routings; -MEL-PER-DRW-MEL- gets the same QFF SC's but the times suck & -MEL-DRW-CNS-MEL- nets 20 less SC's but the times work better. Both give me less miles, but it's not the end of the world.
What I would really like is some feedback at least, yay or nay. I will give it another day.
I hope this is a misunderstanding and relates to the typical 3% added to foreign transactions by many issuing banks. Visa and M/C charge 1% and your "unscrupulous" bank often adds another 2%. "Unscrupulous" because it's strictly a gouge - they do nothing to earn it. Fortunately there are still a few customer friendly banks who don't add the charge.
If airlines are suddenly adding 3% of their own to c/c charges I'd be surprised.