Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
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Wide variation in taxes/fees for intra-Europe award flights
I'm taking a pretty long trip next spring -- arrive in IST on 3/1 and come back from CPH on 4/1 and looking around for how to fill the time in between.
I'm amazed by the wide variation in taxes/fees for the various connections from IST to somewhere else in Europe. For example, lots of 15,000 coach/25,000 miles one way availability for IST-PRG but the taxes/fees, depending on the partner/connection
AMS on KL EU26
SVO on SU EU97/181
CDG on AF EU 32
FCO on AZ EU115
OTP on RO EU35
and various 2 stop CX as well.
Looked at UA as well with the option of transferring Chase points --
15,000 coach/30,000 miles one way and
NS or TK $15
MUC on TK/LH $41
VIe on TK/OS $44
FRA on LH $48
WAW on LO $30
And I didn't even look up pricing on KL or AF using a transfer of Chase points.
I guess the most comfortable would be Tarom through OTP since they seem to have a true 2/2 FC cabin and not the KL Eurowhatever.... But at least on the day I searched that requires an overnight at OTP.
(The ways we waste time....)