Award Booking Taxes

[deka2]

Looking at an 140,000 point award trip to Europe next year and just completed a dummy booking for 2 in whY.

SYD-LHR-MAD –MXP / BUP-IST / HEL-SIN-SYD Flights available but taxes and charges for two people came out at $1,967.28

SYD-LHR-SYD came out at $1,768.00

SYD-FRA-SYD came out at $1,626.00

Taxes have obviously risen since 2010 when our trip round the world, travelling through LHR three times came out at just over $1,400.00.

Just a bit surprised at how high the taxes and charges are.

Do any of the above Airports have excessive charges?

We are willing to change the first Itinerary to reduce them..

 

[oz_mark]

In common with many airlines, Qantas have this scam going called fuel surcharges, whereby they pretend that fuel is not an operational expense, but a surchargeable item.

This has risen quite significantly this year, and is now $290 each way from Australia -> London. So you are looking at $1160 of extra charges just there.

 

[aikman]

You can try substituting in Cathay flights. Their fuel surcharges are slightly cheaper. Finnair's surcharges are pretty high from memory.