Originally Posted by
nwoody2001
LBA-LHR-JFK on the above dates looking to be 110,000 Avios + £660.19 - However, there are only 2 options available with one being an 8 hour stop-over at LHR or the later being 1.25 hour stop-over.. neither ideal
MAN-LHR-JFK on the above dates looking to be 110,000 Avios + £835.46 - Times are much more varied and better but why the hell is it £175.27 more expensive to fly from MAN than LBA
I don't know how the Lloyds voucher works, nor what exactly you're trying to do with it. But the figures that you give look like the redemption figures for a round-trip in CW (off-peak outbound, peak inbound, 50,000+60,000=110,000 Avios).
The TFC for a CW redemption LBA-LHR-JFK-LHR-LBA on those dates start from £634.66 at today's rates. But if you have a long connection (>4h) on the inbound, then you pay another shot of APD to make the TFC £660.66. That's close enough to the figure that you got to suggest that I'm in the right ballpark here.
The TFC for a CW redemption MAN-LHR-JFK-LHR-MAN should be of the same order. The directly comparable TFC figure (standard connection outbound, long connection inbound) would be £659.93.
One big component of the TFC is APD, which is £172.00 for a long-haul flight. The difference between £659.93 and £835.46 is close enough to this to make me wonder therefore whether there is a glitch in the latter calculation, and that the quote wrongly includes two lots of long-haul APD.