{"id":8288,"date":"2020-08-24T22:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2020-08-24T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:27:54","slug":"bas-japan-flight-surcharge-has-got-really-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/08\/24\/bas-japan-flight-surcharge-has-got-really-low\/","title":{"rendered":"BA’s Japan flight surcharge has got really low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just sharing an interesting observation by a friend today. We all know that BA can be really greedy<\/em> when it comes to carrier-imposed surcharges, a.k.a. YQ, which adds to the cost of redemption tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a few countries \/ regions in the world where YQ is strictly prohibited or limited, which means you pay very little fee for one-way outbound award tickets. Hong Kong and Brazil are two typical examples – Hong Kong revoked this regulation a couple of years back though, but interestingly very few airlines decided to increase their surcharge since, apart from Cathay Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sure if Japan has exercised a similar law or something, but BA’s flight departing from Tokyo carries a very low surcharge at the moment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Going to the next page and you can see the actual fee is even lower than advertised, finalised to \u00a326.6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the same case for a return flight too, which is very rare. \u00a3244 is a very generous price considering a large percentage of it is UK APD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to visit Japan, it may be a good time to lock in the ticket given the wide availability and low surcharges. We’re still uncertain when Japan is going to welcome tourists again though – I’m hoping soon as I’ve got ANA first class ticket booked for Christmas…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just sharing an interesting observation by a friend today. We all know that BA can be really greedy when it comes to carrier-imposed surcharges, a.k.a. YQ,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-british-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t