Originally Posted by
gusg
Taxes for BOS-SNN-BOS are about $113 per ticket when booking through the BA call center. Taxes when booking on avios.com are significantly higher (I see $279). There may be differences in the peak/offpeak schedules used by the two airlines which also need to be taken into account. And BA may charge $25 per ticket for booking via the call center, though they have always waived the fee for me.
Do you know why they waived they fee for you? Are you Gold BAEC? I got hit with the phone booking fee recently despite being Silver.