br <none@nowhere.com> wrote:

> jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> > Craig Welch <craig@pacific.net.sg> dixit:
> >> Medgya wrote:
> >>> I had some friends -- an Australian/Japanese couple -- who used Expedia
> >>> quite a bit for their international travels. I don't recall hearing
> >>> about any problems, though that was a few years ago. Still, I often
> >>> find that I get cheaper prices by going directly to the airlines. Last
> >>> year I wanted to go from Sapporo to Hobart (Tasmania) and got a great
> >>> deal from Quantas... less than half the price that Expedia wanted. So
> >>> check around.
> > 
> >> You can't buy Quantas tickets online.
> > 
> > Well I can buy Qantas ones. I just went and (almost) bought a return
> > ticket to Tokyo. They're $A1269 at the moment.
> > 
> > (Perhaps they block them from outside the country...)
> > 
> 
> Sydney -> Tokyo return, Dec 24, Dec 31 $AUD1800 (166,000 yen)
> Tokyo -> Sydney return, Dec 24, Dec 31 250,000yen.

Whups.... I missed that part (maybe the $AUD has changed since I last
used it).
> 
> Nice gouging Qantas.

Memory stirs of something about agreements with JAL and ANA about the
pricing of fares from Japan, to avoid "confusing the customers" with a
range of prices?  But I suspect that the non-Japanese airlines might not
exert themselves too much to revise those agreements....

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