Originally Posted by
spin88
Tickets were $1121 each, so not cheap.
W is a relatively high fare; you're running into an inventory issue.
That said, I found a construction that will give me a fare of $1127, which I think is what you were seeing: a light L fare out and a light W fare back.
I put in a search to avoid the light fares. (ITA Matrix
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The non-light fare is... $1247.
I have no idea what you did to get a price of $2249, but the implication that there is a $1000 fare difference for TATL BE vs non-BE is flat-out wrong.