"John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote in message 
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> 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
>
I have been using IACE travel and never had such a problem.
The $300.00u.s.  gas sur charge sucks
>