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Jul 9, 2016 | 10:33 am

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rollthere

Join Date: Sep 2006

Location: South Florida, USA

Programs: AA LT PLT (OW Sapphire), B6 Mosaic

Posts: 492

Quote:

Originally Posted by thois

However, taxes and carrier imposed charges were quite high because of my routing. I needed to use BA flights because the rule sheet doesn't allow flights segments between Middle East and Europe when the ticket originates from Africa and utilizes backtracking to Africa. Taxes were 479.37USD, YQ and YR were 1,253.10USD, so the total price was 4,653.57USD.

Thanks a lot for sharing. May I ask your routing that required the BA flights as it sounds like I'm doing something similar? Also, do you know are the high YQ charges imposed on all BA/IB flights or just BA?