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Old Nov 16, 2014 | 8:38 am
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shorthauldad
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Originally Posted by DealAddict
Why are the surcharges for the same US Airways flight (PHL-MAD) much higher when booking with Avios on britishairways.com than on usairways? I thought British Airways imposes the surcharges levied by the partner?

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...-avios-awards/

"When redeeming British Airways Avios, they impose whatever fuel surcharges the operating carrier would impose on a revenue ticket."
1. They're not "fuel surcharges" any more, it's a "carrier charge". Nothing to do with fuel. See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...urcharges.html for recent discussion of this with some examples showing how crazy the numbers are.

2. BA decide how high this charge is, although you can safely assume it's as least as high as the operating carrier's actual charge.

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EDIT: for US and AA TATL redemptions BA make sure the YQ is bumped up to around the level they charge on their own metal, otherwise no-one would redeem on BA metal ever again
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