Ticketing currency
May 6, 2014, 12:53 am
#1
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Ticketing currency
I am trying to book DEL - SIN - HKG on the SQ website. The site quotes in INR. Is there any way to change the ticketing currency to SGD or USD or any other major currency?
Changing the location settings to any other country does not help as the website seems to take the originating country's currency as the default ticketing currency.
Other OTA's are quoting in other currencies but I would like to use any airline website only.
Any help would be appreciated!
Changing the location settings to any other country does not help as the website seems to take the originating country's currency as the default ticketing currency.
Other OTA's are quoting in other currencies but I would like to use any airline website only.
Any help would be appreciated!
May 6, 2014, 5:53 am
#2
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When you pay with credit card, your bank will convert the amount in INR to your currency...what is the problem?...Anyway, as for your question, you can not ask SQ to charge you in other currency than INR when you book a ticket ex. India.
May 6, 2014, 7:44 am
#3
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My card is issued in India and I get double points if I use it for transactions in other currencies.
May 6, 2014, 4:52 pm
#4
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No chance to change the currency unfortunately. SQ is either bounded to sell the ticket in a particular currency or does not want to take unnecessary foreign exchange risks by selling in another currency.
Why not buy it from the OTA if you want to get the double points?
Why not buy it from the OTA if you want to get the double points?
May 7, 2014, 6:45 am
#5
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No chance to change the currency unfortunately. SQ is either bounded to sell the ticket in a particular currency or does not want to take unnecessary foreign exchange risks by selling in another currency.
Why not buy it from the OTA if you want to get the double points?
Why not buy it from the OTA if you want to get the double points?
May 7, 2014, 8:33 pm
#8
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One the web, airlines are required to ticket by local office of origination, INR in your case. If you go to SQ ticketing office, they will ticket in local currency of that office. For example, you can go to SQ office in SIN and purchase ticket in SGD. You need to go in person, this won't work by phone.
May 8, 2014, 12:31 am
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Travel agencies (including online ones) tend to use the airline's merchant account when issuing tickets if it is published fare that is found in the GDS. Your credit card bill will show up as "Singapore Airlines" (provided the travel agency inputs your credit card number into the "form of payment" field of your PNR and use the GDS [as opposed to their own credit card machine] to obtain credit card approval). As far as the credit company is concerned, you would be spending directly with the airline.
Only when certain discounted/bulk fares are issued (or when the "form of payment" is entered as "cash", "invoice", "agt", "check" etc.), would the travel agency's name show up on the credit card bill.
Only when certain discounted/bulk fares are issued (or when the "form of payment" is entered as "cash", "invoice", "agt", "check" etc.), would the travel agency's name show up on the credit card bill.
May 9, 2014, 3:48 am
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Travel agencies (including online ones) tend to use the airline's merchant account when issuing tickets if it is published fare that is found in the GDS. Your credit card bill will show up as "Singapore Airlines" (provided the travel agency inputs your credit card number into the "form of payment" field of your PNR and use the GDS [as opposed to their own credit card machine] to obtain credit card approval). As far as the credit company is concerned, you would be spending directly with the airline.
Only when certain discounted/bulk fares are issued (or when the "form of payment" is entered as "cash", "invoice", "agt", "check" etc.), would the travel agency's name show up on the credit card bill.
Only when certain discounted/bulk fares are issued (or when the "form of payment" is entered as "cash", "invoice", "agt", "check" etc.), would the travel agency's name show up on the credit card bill.
May 9, 2014, 2:57 pm
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May 9, 2014, 9:09 pm
#13
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I've been never been able to change the ticketing currency short of calling a travel agency in a different country. This is why I often book on Expedia.
Otherwise my credit cards all are fee-free, so in the end I now just book directly.
Otherwise my credit cards all are fee-free, so in the end I now just book directly.
May 10, 2014, 12:02 am
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Ticketing currency
Recently, going through the booking process, I thought I saw an option to pick and select currency at the end (last final page). Can't reminder if this was for my ex-SIN flight or ex-India flight. I think it was ex-India.
Try going through the process till the last payment page and see if this is true .
Try going through the process till the last payment page and see if this is true .
May 11, 2014, 12:51 am
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Recently, going through the booking process, I thought I saw an option to pick and select currency at the end (last final page). Can't reminder if this was for my ex-SIN flight or ex-India flight. I think it was ex-India.
Try going through the process till the last payment page and see if this is true .
Try going through the process till the last payment page and see if this is true .