UpTheFront
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- Feb 7, 2005
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Yesterday I sent my first ex-NRT DONE4 off to Dublin to be taxed and they came back within the hour with a quote of 796,320 yen, implying taxes of $US450. Sounded good.
But thanks to the keen advice of QF009, I realised I had two LHR stopovers when one should've been a transit. To avoid the 80GBP APD, I changed my second LHR to a thru-connection, and sent it back to Dublin for the discount. (The only other thing to change was a CNS-SYD sector which I moved one day earlier.)
Silly me.
Now the itinerary has been priced at 11,560 yen more -- i.e. almost exactly $US100. I got the rate desk here in the USA to double-check it twice, and they said the new figure is correct. The agent, who seemed clueless about taxes, didn't/couldn't/wouldn't explain why the new fare with one APD, was more than the old one, which had 2 APDs.
I can understand that maybe they made a mistake the first time round and I shoulda grabbed it when I could. But I can't understand why a change to a non-american BA sector would result in an increase by a nice round USD figure like $100. Any idea, or do they just kinda make this stuff up? :shock:
The other oddity was that they quoted me a base pre-tax price of 744,200 yen. It's supposed to be 743,200. That's just spare change, but does anyone know why there'd be an extra thousand yen tacked on? Is it normal for AA offices to add a small issuance fee or something...?
Question: in your experience how often does the rate desk get it wrong -- should I change the itinerary back to what it was and send it back to be repriced, or was the original price too low to be correct anyway and it ain't worth the hassle?
But thanks to the keen advice of QF009, I realised I had two LHR stopovers when one should've been a transit. To avoid the 80GBP APD, I changed my second LHR to a thru-connection, and sent it back to Dublin for the discount. (The only other thing to change was a CNS-SYD sector which I moved one day earlier.)
Silly me.
Now the itinerary has been priced at 11,560 yen more -- i.e. almost exactly $US100. I got the rate desk here in the USA to double-check it twice, and they said the new figure is correct. The agent, who seemed clueless about taxes, didn't/couldn't/wouldn't explain why the new fare with one APD, was more than the old one, which had 2 APDs.
I can understand that maybe they made a mistake the first time round and I shoulda grabbed it when I could. But I can't understand why a change to a non-american BA sector would result in an increase by a nice round USD figure like $100. Any idea, or do they just kinda make this stuff up? :shock:
The other oddity was that they quoted me a base pre-tax price of 744,200 yen. It's supposed to be 743,200. That's just spare change, but does anyone know why there'd be an extra thousand yen tacked on? Is it normal for AA offices to add a small issuance fee or something...?
Question: in your experience how often does the rate desk get it wrong -- should I change the itinerary back to what it was and send it back to be repriced, or was the original price too low to be correct anyway and it ain't worth the hassle?
