Say I want to go to the US from Tokyo. I can go thru a US carrier (like Delta/United) or a Japanese carrier (ANA/JAL). I would imagine that rates on an ANA/JAL flight are priced in yen, and are therefore considerably cheaper than the same flight on Delta/United – due to the favorable exchange rate for USD. Does anyone know if this is true? I feel like prices still end up about the same, which doesn’t really make sense.
I wonder if there’s some kind of trick. Like, maybe the ANA website knows you’re searching rates in terms of USD and so they give you a USD price, instead of a yen price. In this case you wouldn’t benefit from the exchange rate.
Am I overthinking this? Or am I missing something?
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