Originally Posted by
maltasr
With those kinds of exorbitant surcharges, I'm surprised BA is able to stay in business. Do the other European carriers do the same thing? I can see how the surcharges could exceed the actual base cost of the ticket. Why do the British tolerate this practice?
This issue is raised almost daily on the BA forum and since your question deals with the use of BA miles that's where it would probably receive the best responses. For example, see these recent questions:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ight-fees.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...d-booking.html
In fact there have been so many questions there they even have their own thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...s-so-high.html