Looking to get to London using miles without paying fees
Jan 27, 2015, 10:47 am
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Jan 27, 2015, 11:06 am
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Feb 8, 2015, 8:18 pm
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No matter what miles you use, you will still pay fuel surcharges if flying on British Airways transatlantic flights. If you were to somehow get to Munich from San Francisco on another carrier, you would not pay fuel surcharges on the outbound.
The fees would be less flying from London to Dublin to Boston than London to Boston directly, generally. But it depends on what carriers you are using and what miles you are redeeming.
Feb 8, 2015, 10:19 pm
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No matter what miles you use, you will still pay fuel surcharges if flying on British Airways transatlantic flights. If you were to somehow get to Munich from San Francisco on another carrier, you would not pay fuel surcharges on the outbound.
The fees would be less flying from London to Dublin to Boston than London to Boston directly, generally. But it depends on what carriers you are using and what miles you are redeeming.
Feb 9, 2015, 9:58 am
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Flying BA on an award requires hefty YQ charges.
Departing the UK invokes Air Passenger Duty - discounted for Economy, full for higher. Connecting in the UK under 24 hours invokes no APD. (There's a very useful wikipost in this thread in the AA forum dealing with the UK APD.)
I'm not sure whose miles you're using. If it were AA, I'd suggest checking TN (Air Tahiti Nui) LAX-CDG and going to LON on Eurostar. And to check connecting to airberlin (no fees), Ibera (lower YQ), etc.
Without knowing whose miles you're using makes it quite difficult for people to advise you.
Last edited by JDiver; Feb 10, 2015 at 9:47 am
Feb 9, 2015, 1:14 pm
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