Here is your ticket, exclude all taxes and surcharges
June 15th 2008 07:24
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Let me tell you something. The air fares are disgusting. They'll give you an absolute bargain of a price, advertised all over billboards and tv and it's all sweet and lovely until you read the text below *: exclude all taxes and airline surcharges.
And none of these come cheap.
With an emphasis on the rising fuel and food prices around the globe, the airlines are taking up to bring higher and higher taxes and surchages into each of their fares. A special fare from Sydney to Phuket starting at $500 can end up being $1020 after you've added everything up. Besides the airport taxes and all other sorts of government tax and levies, now there is the FUEL surcharge we all have to worry about. Before you sympathise with the airlines, let me just tell you that it's all B*llshit.
The airlines sign an annual contract for the purchase of their fuel. They pay a constant amount during their entire year in the contract and therefore, when in May the annoucement came that they have to charge higher fuel surcharge, they are really trying to use the public figures to get more money out of us. They are still paying the same prices for their fuels, but we didn't know that did we?
So, we willingly pay this fuel surcharge (which is a must pay, even the travel agents who are willing to give discounts like me can't do anything about it) without realising they are actually profiting from this global issue.
How rude, and they thought we'd never find out. Well now that I am dishing up all these dirt, I am willing to spill the beans. Just as well I don't work for any of them.
Just in June five major airlines have increased their fuel surcharge, and more will follow. And it's the travel agents that have to tell the customers about these charges that have to cop the frustration....
And none of these come cheap.
With an emphasis on the rising fuel and food prices around the globe, the airlines are taking up to bring higher and higher taxes and surchages into each of their fares. A special fare from Sydney to Phuket starting at $500 can end up being $1020 after you've added everything up. Besides the airport taxes and all other sorts of government tax and levies, now there is the FUEL surcharge we all have to worry about. Before you sympathise with the airlines, let me just tell you that it's all B*llshit.
The airlines sign an annual contract for the purchase of their fuel. They pay a constant amount during their entire year in the contract and therefore, when in May the annoucement came that they have to charge higher fuel surcharge, they are really trying to use the public figures to get more money out of us. They are still paying the same prices for their fuels, but we didn't know that did we?
So, we willingly pay this fuel surcharge (which is a must pay, even the travel agents who are willing to give discounts like me can't do anything about it) without realising they are actually profiting from this global issue.
How rude, and they thought we'd never find out. Well now that I am dishing up all these dirt, I am willing to spill the beans. Just as well I don't work for any of them.
Just in June five major airlines have increased their fuel surcharge, and more will follow. And it's the travel agents that have to tell the customers about these charges that have to cop the frustration....
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