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Flight Fuel Surcharges
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Apologies if this has been raised before......
I booked a week to USA (for Feb 09) way back in March / April 08 for two people with Crystal and at the time of the booking the flight supplement was 'estimated' at £79 as the actual supplement hadnt been released by BA or Virgin. At the end of April the phone call from the Travel Agent advised;
BA surcharge = £158 pp
Virgin surcharge = £298pp
Fuel costs were obviously on the up and BA/Virgin were attempting to protect themselves against these. However, as we dont fly til Feb and fuel is now at its lowest in three years, would you not expect some reduction and rebate to the customer??
Looking at the BA website now, they advise that flights booked from 18/12/08 will be subject to a flight supplement of £66!!!!!
Now i know the argument will be that BA have to buy their fuel in advance.... but are they saying that they carry almost a years worth of fuel in storage!??
I'm sure that had the fuel surcharge increased AFTER i booked, they would have come to me advising additional monies please......
The additional cost of the holiday is £158 (after the original surcharge estimate) which equates to a two hour private lessons in resort!
BA / Crystal are now receiving emails / letters of complaint!
Anybody else 'suffered' the same?
PS: Made worse that we have to go in the scholl half term (as gf works in school) so not cheap in first place.
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
I think it is utterly outrageous that there is currently any fuel surcharge at all!
Aircraft fuel is virtually tax free and is down 75% from is peak.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Of course their attitude will be 'there's a profit to be had' kind of like the Energy companies so keen to raise prices but when it comes to reducing them...
Its one of the reasons Canada has been out of my budget range for the last couple of years!
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