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Get Your Reward Surcharges Waived When Redeeming For Qatar Airways QSuites

Oct 11 2024

Qatar Airways, like many frequent flyer programs, adds cash surcharges when you redeem your miles. Their award travel isn’t free. Still, it can be an incredible deal to redeem 70,000 points to fly arguably the best business class in the world… even with a few hundred bucks out of pocket.

But what if you didn’t have to pay these cash surcharges at all?

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A Trick To Knock 67% Off British Airways Award Fuel Surcharges Right Now

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Aug 25 2020

British Airways makes a lot of business class award space available, but they’re expensive. Departures from the U.K. incur significant ‘air passenger duty’ and awards also incur fuel surcharges. A roundtrip business class award between the U.S. and U.K. might run $1300 in taxes and fees.

Right now there seems to be a quirk booking awards on British Airways that you can exploit to reduce fuel surcharges (or ‘carrier-imposed surcharges’) by about two-thirds.

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Wide Open Summer Business Class Awards Using American AAdvantage Miles

Nov 13 2019

The ability to use American AAdvantage miles at the saver level without significant fuel surcharges is a relative rarity and worth jumping on.

oneworld carrier Iberia – owned by British Airways parent IAG – is starting new summer seasonal service between Washington Dulles and Madrid five times a week, effective May 1. The flight will be operated by an Airbus A330-300 with 29 business class, 21 premium economy, and 242 coach seats.

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