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    Good morning,

    I have some related questions if anyone has time, please:

    1) How much extra tax would I need to pay if I wanted to upgrade an economy seat (London – New York, peak) to Premium with 15000 points?

    2) How much extra tax would I need to pay if I wanted to upgrade that Premium seat to Upper with a further 60000 points?

    3) Is there a list or table of such tax deltas that I can refer to?

    Thank you!

    11,480 posts

    You can do a couple of dummy bookings which will show you the different cash amounts, also SeatSpy shows them, but one way which might skew it a bit.

    US taxes are outrageous, but we were charged $173 each to use the Virgin credit card voucher to upgrade 2 of us from PE to UC recently, from NAS to LHR, which felt like great value.

    3,376 posts

    US taxes aren’t outrageous.

    It’s the BA surcharges that are.

    11,480 posts

    I consider $1000, one-way, from NYC to be outrageous. BA RFS fees are pretty reasonable, though the number of avios required is very high.

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