Most ethnic fares are valid for people with the citizenship of the destination country, living in the country from where the flight originates. Also included in the group are people who have been borne in the country they are flying to. Ethnic passengers can also take their spouse and their children with them and extend the benefits of ethnic fares for them. The most common benefits of ethnic fares are:

• If on the route the luggage for normal economy passengers is limited to 20 kgs, ethnic passengers will almost always be allowed to carry 30 kgs.
• the maximum stay for ethnic passengers is often extented. This means that a normal passenger can stay for a fare in a certain category e.g. 30 days, often an ethnic passenger can use a similiar fare for a stay of up to 90 days
• Often the fare rules for the cheapest tarifs forbid a change of reservation. In most instances ethnic fare will waive that restriction and allow a change of reservation against a fee.
• Sometimes ethnic fares are modestly lower than the comparable fares for the general public. But this is not always the case, the ethnic fares can even sometimes be a bit higher than the ceapest general fares.

These fares are offered by many carriers, but not for all destinations. Most common are ethnic offers from KLM/Air France and the Middle East Carriers like Emirates, Quatar Airlines and Gulf Air. Ethipopian Airlines and Thai Airways and Malaysian Airways offer ethnic specials as well. Commonly you can get ethnic specials to African countries and to South East Asian counties, like Indonesia and Thailand and Malaysia.

There are also ethnic fares to South America and the Caribic available. But on the transatlantic routes a luggage policy of 2 pieces each 23 kgs is common, especially if the flight is routed through the US. In this case one big ethnic fare benefit is gone, and so these fares are less common on west-bound flights.

Ethnic fares are exclusively sold in the area from there the flights originates. So a German travel agency can sell an ethnic fare from Germany to Africa, but not from France or the UK to Africa. Many carriers require special contracts for travel agents to sell ethnic fares. Agencies who do not have that agreements cannot sell these fares.

If you are a person who satisfies the conditions shown at the beginning of this post, you are welcome to inquire about ethnic fare available for your travel needs at

http://lounge.bestprice.travel/flights/ethnic.php

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