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Old Oct 9, 2014 | 1:49 pm
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Originally Posted by rankourabu
Besides that, its all actual govt taxes... well almost all - Aeroplan tickets also carry quite a bit in fake taxes (NAV CAN), that other programs award tickets dont. But these will be constant and only increase if you take more connections
This might not be the case on US routes, but on a recently-booked European ticket, using Aeroplan would have resulted in almost $500 per ticket in "fuel surcharges". It was $1,250 and 120,000 Aeroplan miles to book two tickets, or I could have booked (and did book) cash tickets at about $2,090 all in. It hardly seemed worthwhile to use 120,000 Aeroplan miles to only save $800.
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