Originally Posted by
Austinrunner
Congrats!
Will you have an open jaw between DXB and JNB?
A lot of those "taxes" are the UK air passenger duty (for originating in LHR). Are you using BA anywhere in your itinerary?
Originally Posted by
azgirlnnyc
Yep - open jaw from DXB - JNB. South African Air has a direct flight I can use United Miles for. I looked into going to Nairobi, but I would have had to burn 2 segments and wanted to use them elsewhere. The only BA leg is the last one CDG-LHR, and the agent said the taxes were low. I asked her if there were any anomalies, but she said there were just several 20-30E charges, and multiplying for 16 legs added up. I changed the itinerary so many times, it was the best gateway to start/end the trip. Would have been nice to pay lower taxes, but really wanted to be ticketed before leaving the US. Thanks again for your help!
Somehow I got the suspicion of CX's YQ or YR got charged in the itinerary because of what we learned from the other thread when AA IT system priced the award wrongly by adding the fuel surcharge on airlines that AA currently dont charge. (even including AA's own flights!)
Knowing the $ amount of the taxes / fees not going to help verify the accuracy of charges, you would need to know the codes of the charges. Any YR / YQ if not on BA/IB flight would be wrongfully charged.