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Old Jan 2, 2010 | 3:45 pm
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BA (in common with many other European carriers) adds a fuel surcharge on award tickets. In addition, departures from UK airports are subject to Air Passenger Duty (APD). BA discloses fees here...

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...e/public/en_us

There are extensive discussions of this in Miles Buzz, notably in this thread...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...versus-aa.html

...which we probably do not need to duplicate here.
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