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Flyers snap up ultra-cheap tickets after IT glitch

ANA blames currency conversion error for offering $10,000 Asia-US business class tickets for $300

Passengers wait to check in for All Nippon Airways flights at Haneda airport in Tokyo in April 2022. (Photo: AFP)

TOKYO: Eagle-eyed travellers snapped up heavily discounted tickets in the fanciest cabins on All Nippon Airways after a currency conversion blunder, with one paying just $890 for first-class flights from Jakarta to the Caribbean via Tokyo and New York, and back again.

That 14,500-kilometre journey would typically cost nearly 20 times as much in first class on ANA. Others grabbed tickets in business class for just a few hundred dollars instead of the usual $10,000 or so, with news of the…

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