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Old Oct 6, 2025 | 3:13 pm
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Originally Posted by donotblink
Is it normal for there to be a 100 USD surcharge to confirm a systemwide upgrade on a flight from Charles de Gaulle to Heathrow when Heathrow to JFK was already confirmed? I was just told this by a reservations agent. My telephone call actually took two hours and 12 minutes which I thought was crazy, apparently they had to call over to British Airways to confirm it.
No. Is your LHR-JFK on AA metal or BA metal?

The YQ/YR surcharge difference for an intra-Europe flight like CDG-LHR is only a few Euro. Are you sure it wasn't the French "luxury tax" difference going from Y>J departing Paris?

Edit: I see umaa83 beat me to it.
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