Originally Posted by
San Gottardo
Wanted to fly from Lisbon via Paris to BEY on miles, Business Class.
LIS-CDG-BEY comes in at 90,000 miles, 200 EUR taxes/fees, labelled "Special Elite"
CDG-BEY comes in at 60,000 miles, 244 EUR taxes/fees, also labelled "Special Elite"
So instead of just applying a "Europe-Middle East" award, they add 30,000 miles for LIS-CDG to the 60,000 of CDG-BEY.
What is interesting though, when pricing this as an award in P (which I don't intend to take on such a route and for the amount of miles they ask), it comes in at 160,000 miles, irrespective of whether I leave from LIS or CDG.
How can that be? Is there any logic in this? If there is, then I don't get it.
There could be an issue of availability at the lower award level on LIS-CDG: the award at the 60K level has availability on CDG-BEY but not on LIS-CDG-BEY, therefore forcing it into a higher award category for the latter?
On the taxes, I would have expected taxes to be higher ex-CDG (due to higher CDG fees for originating passengers +Air Passenger Solidarity tax) although I would have expected the differential to be closer to €25 than €40.