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Dec 15, 2009 | 5:47 pm

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Mr. Bean

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy

I am confused by your post.

My understanding is, using BA miles to book partner award flights, the fuel surcharge is much lower than book BA's own flights.

I recently tried booking a JL flight with BA miles for NRT-LAX. With BA, have to go through LHR and cost 48K miles + $450 (one way). With JL the cost is 25K miles and $120.

This means that BA is collecting the YQ that JL charges for the route ($72).

since that fee is not passed on to JL anyway.

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