{"id":8288,"date":"2020-08-24T22:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-test.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:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/08\/24\/bas-japan-flight-surcharge-has-got-really-low\/","title":{"rendered":"BA&#8217;s Japan flight surcharge has got really low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just sharing an interesting observation by a friend today. We all know that BA can be really <em>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<p>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 &#8211; 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<p>Not sure if Japan has exercised a similar law or something, but BA&#8217;s flight departing from Tokyo carries a very low surcharge at the moment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8289\" width=\"400\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-768x354.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>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<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-return.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-return.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8290\" width=\"400\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-return.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-return-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/ba-hnd-lhr-surcharge-example-return-768x337.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;re still uncertain when Japan is going to welcome tourists again though &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping soon as I&#8217;ve got ANA first class ticket booked for Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, which adds to the cost of redemption tickets. There are a few countries \/ regions in the world where YQ is strictly prohibited or limited, which means you pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/08\/24\/bas-japan-flight-surcharge-has-got-really-low\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,17],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8293,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions\/8293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-test.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}