Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Because you bought a single ticket this will be particularly counter intuitive, since that's not a cheap way to travel. On that day the cheapest WTP single is £1739, and so your UuA cost would be quite high all things told. The cheapest return, on the other hand, is £918, so:
1) At £459 per leg, the increased cost to UuA to CW becomes more logical, particularly if you consider there should potentially have been more availability on a slow day in February.
2) I hope you actually did buy a return! Even if you were going to throw the return sector away, better still would be to select a date which would be vaguely plausible even if it was 10 months off.
3) You could do this in CW for £1036 if you started from DUB, booked outbound in CW, but didn't use the return booked in World Traveller. Or First in £2366. No UuA required, you just end up with more Avios and TPs.
Actually, I purchased a WTP return LHR-JFK-LHR and upgraded to Club for only one-way.
Price paid for the ticket was ok. It was the 24,000 Avios charged for one-way UUA that astonished me. Especially since the last time that I did this (pre 28th April) it only cost 12,500 Avios to UUA one-way (I think).