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Old Sep 1, 2025 | 11:16 am
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Originally Posted by megaloman
You can verify quotes using the Redemption Calculator I've built.

An off-peak round trip LHR-SFO-LHR in J would be 180k avios + £475 RFS fee.
An off-peak round trip LHR-SFO-LHR in F would be 170k avios + ~£850 taxes/fees/surcharges.
(mixing J/F would lower the avios part to 148k avios)
Thanks for reminding us of your Calculator megaloman. Just had a play and had some interesting Avios numbers come out, which made me think slightly differently about the routing for our next long haul trip. Very useful!
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