Rind wrote:

> Sigi Rindler wrote:
> 
>> Watch out and have a Japanese ask for the end price before revealing your
>> nationality! On the other hand, these agencies  might have dropped this
>> practice as of today since airlines (e.g. ANA) and a relevant governmental
>> agency have already complained.
>> It was over 50,000 yen profit for me by not going with the two biggest
>> ticket discounters in Japan! By the way H.I.S and Travel No. 1 are one and
>> the same company...
> 
> Sometimes that doesn't even help; I'm a member of a yahoo group for
> foreign women with Japanese husbands and on numerous occasions women
> have reported/complained that when they're husbands give the names for
> the tickets (that are booked at the "japanese" discount rate) they
> actually still try to charge extra for the foreign wife... have you
> ever heard the likes of it. Makes me sick to the stomach.

I'm really surprised. I must have flown from Japan maybe a couple of 
dozen times over the years, and it's always my Japanese wife who makes 
the bookings. She gets a quote from different agents (sometimes 
cross-checking with the actual airline itself) and then we decide which 
one to book. Her double-barrelled foreign-sounding surname doesn't get 
mentioned until then, and there's never been any question of the company 
trying to revise the price at that stage.

We've used No. 1/H.I.S. a number of times.

John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com