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Whats are your airports? Sometimes the taxes are legit- LHR long haul departure tax runs $150+ on an economy ticket- and other times the airline will attempt to pass something off as a tax or the dread fuel surcharge to make it less useful to redeem for an award ticket.
What would a "good travel agency" accomplish, they certainly can't avoid paying taxes - which may include various US and international taxes.
What you need is a good airline search engine and some flexibility on times, departure locations, and arrival locations. Some countries include very high airport arrival taxes that you can avoid by arriving in an adjacent country or different airport.
OP, why don't you tell us what home airport you're flying from and where you're trying to go? That ticket price suggests you're flying into a very pricey airport like London Heathrow. The fix isn't a travel agent, it's finding a less expensive arrival airport.
If most of that $503 is a fuel surcharge then it may be a prime candidate for fuel dumping. Of course, the time spent learning how to hack this airfare strategy might outweigh the savings lol.
Destinations vary greatly at this point. We just happened to see that highly taxed fare on some low air fare web site. We later saw one that was over $700 and the taxes were close to $100.
In the west direction the main airport was Tokyo. We are looking at Europe but no definitive locations.
Was that an international flight? Some of those foreign countries have really high taxes and you will be paying airport tax on both ends of the flight.
Destinations vary greatly at this point. We just happened to see that highly taxed fare on some low air fare web site. We later saw one that was over $700 and the taxes were close to $100.
In the west direction the main airport was Tokyo. We are looking at Europe but no definitive locations.
Party of 4 from the Carolina area (flexible on departing from Raleigh - Durham or south to Columbia. One quote was given by a travel agent on the west coast and they stick pretty much to EVA as part of the trip.
Destinations might be Singapore or Bangkok or to Europe maybe Berlin or Rome. From looking at a few of the low fare sites like Cheap-O the searches all end in prices higher than the travel agent, and many have a long layover in New York or Tokyo of 14+ hours. Two hours to get to N.Y. and then layover 14-18 hours on some flights. Asia or Europe or neither and time frame late January to late March. If a vote is taken I choose Asia due to warm weather. Last trip to Europe was coolish. Real coolish.
Not enough info, too many maybes. Get some set dates/airports and we might be able to help you. Travel duration? Just flights or also accommodation/car?
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