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Quote:

Originally Posted by xONEx rules

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 or the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA).

The last sentence above makes it clear that even though Switzerland is not part of ECAA, ticketing through UK (for example) can be done at the ex-Switzerland price even if lower than ex-UK price. If the ex-UK price is lower it does not apply for xONEx starting somewhere else that has a higher fare.

Fare at origin country applies, except in the following circumstances
a) fare at sale country is higher AND sale country is not Canada or member of ECAA

If sale country has lower fare than origin country, even for Canada or ECAA, you cannot use it to start somewhere else.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer (Post 11135102)

From my reading of the xONEx rules and my very recent experience, this is incorrect. The second paragraph should read

"Fare at origin country applies, except in the following circumstances
a) fare at sale country is higher AND sale or origin country is not Canada or member of ECAA"

I recently booked a DONE4 ex-UK, paid in US$. The base fare was computed in pounds, converted into US$ at a decent-but-not-great exchange rate. After conversion, the base fare was approximately US$2400 less than the ex-US base fare.

(My original plan was to book the DONE4 ex-JNB, but the planning proved to tricky. Booking ex-UK in US$ was easy.)

Here are the remarks on the PNR for a RTW ticket originating in London, and sold+ticketed in Bermuda (where the RTW fare is much higher). I queued this ticket for pricing, and purchased, about 3 weeks ago. Anything starting AA* is my message to the rate desk, and anything starting H- is the rate desk's message to me.

Code:

 32.AA*PLEASE RE-PRICE TICKET FOR SALE/TICKETING IN BDA         

 33.H-AA RATE REQUEST RECEIVED  918AM/04JAN/TAQ                 

 34.H-TICKETING RESTRICTIONS APPLY.                             

 35.H-COUNTRY OF PAYMENT MINIMUM CHECK -COP- APPLIED. FLAT FARE 

 36.H- FROM COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, CONVERTED AT THE BSR TO COUNTRY  

 37.H-OF PAYMENT CURRENCY, CANNOT BE LESS THAN SAME FARE FROM C 

 38.H-OUNTRY OF PAYMENT. DIFFERENCE ADDED AS *P* IN FARECALC.   

 39.H-AA RATE COMPLETED, RATE GUARANTEED FOR 24 HRS.            

 40.H-THANKS FOR CHOOSING AMERICAN AIRLINES                     

 41.H-0948/04JAN/TAU                                            

 42.AA*PER LONE4 FARE RULES, -COP- CHECK NOT APPLICABLE FOR     

 43.AA*TRAVEL ORIGINATING IN EUROPEAN COMMON AVIATION AREA     ‡

 44.AA*LGW IS IN THE E.C.A.A. THEREFORE -COP- DOES NOT APPLY   ‡

 45.AA*PLEASE PRICE AGAIN. THANKS.                              

 46.H-AA RATE REQUEST RECEIVED 1017AM/04JAN/TAQ                 

 47.H-TICKETING RESTRICTIONS APPLY.                             

 48.H--COP- CORRECTED.                                          

 49.H-AA RATE COMPLETED, RATE GUARANTEED FOR 24 HRS.            

 50.H-THANKS FOR CHOOSING AMERICAN AIRLINES                     

 51.H-1032/04JAN/TAU

So they first charged me the higher ex-BDA fare. Then I quoted fare rules, and they returned the lower ex-LON fare, converted to Bermuda dollars.

I've since priced and purchased another ex-LON fare sold and ticketed in the USA, at the ex-LON rate.

That having been said, I do agree with the previous posts that if the ex-BDA rate were lower in this circumstance, I would pay the (higher) ex-LON rate because I'm originating there.