Eagle-eyed travellers have snapped up US$10,000 (S$13,300) business-class tickets on Japan’s ANA airline for just some hundred {dollars} after a forex conversion blunder.
ANA has mentioned it’ll honour the tickets for these individuals who noticed the error and jumped on its web site rapidly to e-book and pay (the glitch was circulating broadly on some social media platforms) however those that solely reserved the tickets must pay a “just price”, in accordance with an airline spokesman on Wednesday.
Most of the tickets had been from journey beginning in Jakarta, by means of to Japan after which onto New York and again once more into numerous South-east Asia locations, together with Singapore and Bali – enterprise class all the best way.
The Japanese service mentioned the error stemmed from an error on its Vietnam web site, which listed an misguided forex conversion. It didn’t state how many individuals had secured low cost tickets, and added that it was “currently investigating the cause of the bug and the size of its damage”.
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