J and I finalized our itinerary this week and made reservations with American Airlines for the 5-Continent OneWorld Explorer RTW ticket. We originally thought the ticket price corresponded to the country of origin. So, we were all happy, thinking that we beat the system by starting our trip in London to lower the overall cost of the RTW ticket. However, we were mistaken and the actual price of your ticket corresponds to the country of sale. For example, the same 5-Continent ticket costs $5100 if purchased in the US or 1909 GBP ($3600) if purchased in the UK. We really didn't want to pay an extra $3000 between the two of us so we started scheming ways to purchase the tickets in London, including (I kid you not) flying one of us to London over a weekend. That would've still been at least a savings of $2000! However, upon careful scrutiny of the terms and conditions of the OneWorld Explorer program, J found the following clause: "When travel originates in a country for which a specific local currency fares is published and the ticket is sold in another country, the fare will be that published for the country of origin converted to the currency of the country of sale at the bank selling rate. The resultant fare must not be lower than from the country of sale. Exception: Not applicable for sales made and/or travel originating in Canada." In English, it means that if we purchase the tickets in Canada we can pay the price that corresponds to the country of origin. This was verified by an American Airline representative. Luckily, we live 3 hours from Vancouver International Airport. Guess where we will be this weekend! Bless those Canadians!