Originally Posted by
aktchi
Actually, I had no idea.
Except that OP had written, "If you pay for your tickets in Canada you pay the lower fare - it's the only country that you can do this in" and I wanted to understand what was meant and if I could use it in my forthcoming purchase.
The OP was referring to this rule:
Originally Posted by oneworld.com
When travel originates in a country for which a specific local currency fares is published and the ticket is sold in another country, the fare will be that published for the country of origin converted to the currency of the country of sale at the bank selling rate. The resultant fare must not be lower than from the country of sale. Exception: Not applicable for sales made and/or travel originating in Canada.
However, most regular fares (like ORD-DEL), do not have a different base price from country to country, so this Canada exception, if applied, would not make any difference to the base price of the fare.