Country-of-origin question
 

In the rules attachment to the excellent OW RTW price table, this statement occurs: "With the exception of USA and Canada, tickets must be paid for and issued in the country of origin. [Guy Betsy] "

What does this mean, exactly? Can I really do an RTW ex-YVR using the Canadian fares, and buy and pay for the tickets in Seattle?

you could however you will still have to pay the higher of the US and Canada fares. which in this case would be the US fare and thus not worth it. if the cities in question are YVR and SEA it would be feasible to drive/fly up to YVR and have the tix issued. this is the case unless OW specifically allow ex. Canada fares to be sold in the US at C$ rates??

I believe (as is the case with * Alliance) that in Canada you can have a ticket issued at the fare of the origination point. With *A I have done this and had an RTW issued ex. India with the INR fare.

Back in November, I called the AA RTW desk in DFW and book an itinerary originating in BUD (Hungary) and bought an Explorer. It was the ex-BUD price converted into U.S. dollars. I wanted to ticket it at an AA CTO but I did not have time to do so when I was in the U.S. back then. I had a U.S. travel agent issue the ticket and sent it to my address in Japan.

Guy Betsy's notation basically means you can buy in the U.S. an Explorer ex-any city in the world for the price in that originating country (converted into U.S. dollars).

You can't do this in most other countries. In Japan, for instance, you can only buy an Explorer originating in Japan. (We used to be able to issue a much lower-priced ex-SEL (Korea) in Tokyo but no longer.)

Unless AA has changed its rules, I bet you can buy an ex-YVR fare Explorer in Seattle.

You have to start the jounry from the originating city, YVR, though.

[This message has been edited by Chiangi (edited 01-08-2001).]

I have recently purchased a OW RTW starting in Madrid. The price was the Spain price converted to US$ and the ticket was delivered to me in the USA. Before I found out about the lower price from Spain, I had planned to start from Canada. In that case the price was to be the $Canada converted to $US. AA's RTW desk had no problem with doing that.
Unless there is a very recent change, you can do the same.

Thanks, everyone. Last year when I discovered (duh!) that ex-Canada fares were significantly cheaper than ex-US, someone who sounded authoritative explained that The Rules said you had to physically present yourself in the country of origin to legally buy tickets there. Now I don't have to keep the shades pulled at night, fearing that midnight knock on the door by the Airline Police.