Originally Posted by
Globaliser
The £200 figure piqued my interest, because I could have sworn that I had seen a different figure when looking at the other thread (
Be Careful! Tax discrepancies!!!).
I was right.
It seems that YQ can now vary by date as well. Try pricing a cash WT+ ticket for October. And then one for November. If you switch off ITA's availability checker, you can get DIFs in both cases, so that is not the problem here.
Although the difference between cash tickets and award tickets could in theory be a bug or an oversight, it is harder to ascribe this to a mere mistake of some kind.
So these "surcharges" can now vary by
- booking class (the obvious one)
- booking method (cash/Avios)
- date (as per your example)
- discretion (sometimes they don't charge it at all when you upgrade)
They're also arbitrary numbers, generally higher than the fare itself, and go straight to BA. Very much sounds like a
fare rather than a
surcharge? That's just ridiculous now isn't it...