Originally Posted by
YohYohY
Where does the $93.50 come from?
Maybe I'm missing something, the screen shot you sent shows a cost of $463.50.
The total below the item line shows a cost of $91.50 - is this where the confusion is? Maybe a problem with the webpage, not totalling correctly?
Your booking has 3 people, the examples above done by others show only 1 person.
I tried the route (IKA-DXB) return in saver for 3, the total was 463.50 and there was a column for carrier imposed charges. Hence my question to the OP about the version of browser used. The taxes do add up to 91.50USD so the OP might have mistyped 93.50USD.
I even tried 'forcing' the lower value onto the form (deleting components off the table, modifying the values) but all the calculations are done in the backend and so the displayed figures are not used at all after clicking continue.
I suspect what the OP had was a broken browser at the time of the booking, or EK were doing updates to the website and might have had glitches (but even this is highly unlikely).
The cheapest fare for this route return is just 277.50USD pp. That includes 123USD in base fare, 124USD for surcharges and 30.50USD for taxes.
If you ask me, using 15k miles to save 123 USD is a very bad deal to begin with (and I don't use the word very that often).