ANA blunder causes US$10,000 Asia-US business class tickets to be sold for just $300

Eagle-eyed travellers snapped up US$10,000 ANA business-class tickets for just a few hundred dollars after a currency conversion blunder. - AFP

HONG KONG (Bloomberg): 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 US$890 for flights in first class all the way from Jakarta to the Caribbean via Tokyo and New York, and back again.

That 14,500-km (9,000-mile) 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 glitch spreading on social media platforms.