Originally Posted by
iowa guy
I searched AA for Business Class award flights for June 2019 (that's as far out as they would let me search--even though my trip will be in September 2018).
The trip 'cost' 115,000 miles and $1,168.61 USD. Wow. $1,006.00 of that total is for carrier-imposed fees.
Are fees likely to be that high across all carriers or is this because it is AA and part of the flight is on British Airways.
If you could get on an AA flight from the USA to LHR, and then a BA flight to Greece, (and vice versa) you won't pay the same fuel surcharge fees. The flight from the USA to England and England to the USA on BA will incur the highest fees. On AA metal, it will drop dramatically. I was just on the ATH/LHR/LAX flight in business class. The fees were not prohibitive, about $130 if memory serves. ATH to LHR on BA, LHR to LAX on AA. The problem is that there's nearly always availability on BA metal, and the same routing on AA metal is much scarcer, because nobody wants those BA surcharges.