However, for any other type of international trips, they'll charge
a massive fuel surcharge and you'll be stuck paying $ 400 +.
Unfortunately, for most destinations not listed above, flying Singapore partners means paying
massive fuel surcharges in addition to high mileage costs.
Much like British Airways, Qantas levies
massive fuel surcharges on award tickets.
Virgin Atlantic offers international service and has several partners, but it's award chart requires a lot of miles, it collects
massive fuel surcharges, and it often requires round - trip tickets.
Yesterday we noted that Delta began imposing
massive fuel surcharges on Virgin Atlantic awards.
British Airways Avios can be a difficult reward currency to maximize, with a distance - based award chart and
massive fuel surcharges overseas.
The funny thing is that, to your point, there are
massive fuel surcharges if you actually fly British Airways with these Avios points, so you would NEVER want to use them on British Airways.
Furthermore, it's main European partner British Airways imposes
massive fuel surcharges on awards that often approach or even exceed the cost of discounted ticket paid with cash.
Not exact matches
In our example above, the
massive price bump also comes from carrier - imposed
surcharges, commonly referred to as
fuel surcharges.