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Globaliser
The other thing that I'm wondering is this: the article looks only at prices for award tickets, and whether/how/how much they've increased. But traditionally, the non-RFS TFC for an award were always the same as the TFC for a cash ticket in the same cabin. Do the award TFC increases simply reflect increases in TFC for all ticket including cash tickets? Is there any evidence that award ticket buyers are being treated less well than cash ticket buyers, so far as TFC are concerned?
Quite a lot of work might be needed to analyse that, and I hope that people will have the time to do it rather than just jumping to conclusions about award ticket price increases.
This.
Although not many people have historical records of the YQ and taxes paid on cash fares over time. But many people have emails showing how much they paid on award tickets. So it's hard to find the data to back up any movement in paid fares.
There's no reason to think that BA has done anything other than increase YQ across the board based on inflation, fuel prices, market demand, etc.