Originally Posted by
oxtailsoup
Is this just a USA thing? I always thought that a return CW ticket on Avios was about £500-600 in taxes for the last few years. Last week I booked two seats to Mauritius and it was between £1100-1200 for both.
The numbers being quoted in this topic are outrageous.

The
absurdly outrageous YQ levels (~$1000) are exclusively ex USA I think.
YQ levels ex other countries range from mildly to pretty outrageous.