One cool thing is you can buy say a business class ZED on lots of airlines, for a little more money you can be really comfortable. A ZH LAX-SYD-LAX in economy will run you $378, vs the $80 to stay on your own airline. The airlines come to an agreement together to choose how much to charge each other’s employees. Zed Low, Medium, High, Value and service fee. There are 5 types of ZEDs that I can think of: ZL ZM ZH VAL and SF. A lot of times on short routes the tax is more than the fare. Because there’s a fee for ZED based on distance, you also have to pay all the other taxes associated for departure and arrival. You do get a ton of options on ZED, but it costs a lot more. ZEDs kick in once you’ve been employed for 6 months for most of them, some of them are 3 months apparently, but I haven’t looked in awhile. I used to fly to DUB every few weeks and the total was about $26 each time. The cheapest ones you’ll find are Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain among some others. It’s $0 to SYD, and the $80ish to fly back. So if you’re doing a round trip ORD-SYD-ORD. The most expensive taxes off the top of my head are UK ($170?), France, Germany, ($80ish) and Australia. (There are a couple of countries in the pacific / Caribbean / Asia which do but I can’t remember) This is regardless of cabin you’re seated in for AA. Since there are extremely few countries who assess taxes flying inbound, you’ll almost never have to pay a dime leaving the US to fly to another country. For international you only pay the applicable departure and customs taxes.
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