Flight surcharge increase

shudd1967

Hi

partner just phoned to see he was listening to Chris Evans on radio 2 and he heard something about flight fuel surcharges going up very soon.

Now not sure if this is new announcement and where I am at mo can't find more out, he seems to think they said there was a extra £200 roughly going on long haul flights as of next month - is this correct?

Just that we had been planning on going to Thailand next Feb and had held off on booking flights - but if they are going up should I do so now? Or will they add the extra money on anyway?

he didn't hear whole article which is annoying so if anyone could enlighten me I would appreciate!!

pennylane99

just been on Sky News about BA increase

British Airways is increasing its fuel surcharge on all tickets issued from next Tuesday by up to £60, due to continuing high oil prices

The airline said the cost for each passenger for short-haul flights would rise by £3 per flight (or £6 for a return flight) to £16 (£32 return).
The surcharge for long haul flights of less than nine hours will increase by £15 per flight to £78 (£156 return - increase of £30).
Also, the charge on flights of more than nine hours will rise by £30 per flight to £109 (£218 return - increase of £60).

BA said it would also increase its fuel surcharges by similar levels in markets outside the UK.

The company's rival, Sir Richard Branson's airline Virgin Atlantic, announced fuel surcharge rises this week.

But the carrier said that those sitting at the front of the aircraft would face higher charges than those in economy-class seats at the back

alanrowell

They'll all announce them now that "Mr Big" has.

The likes of Ryanair are sneaking them in disguised as new or increased charges - eg they recently increased the cost of checked luggage

Engadine

If the price of oil keeps going up the way it has been then this won't be the last fuel surcharge increase. This is the 2nd increase by BA and others in the last couple of months. Some airlines have dropped routes, a couple have gone bust and Silverjet are seriously struggling all due to the price of fuel at the moment

jonesMUFCforever

Can anyone answer though why not just increase the price of the tickets instead of fleecing us with these extras?

shudd1967

Fair play this whole fuel lark is S**T!

stoneman

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Can anyone answer though why not just increase the price of the tickets instead of fleecing us with these extras?

I assume that one of the reasons is that if there is a discount to be applied to the price, or if you are on a reward booking, the base fare is all you get the discount on, and they still charge you fees and taxes.
We booked a flight with AA and got a 15% discount. The tickets were £400 each but the discount was only £22 as the base fare was £150 with £250 fees and taxes.
Likewise we booked "free" reward flights with Virgin that actually cost us £300 each, mind, they were in Upper. It's a bl**dy con.

moonrakerz

Do a bit of simple arithmetic.

The "surcharge" on many flights is now actually more than the cost of the fuel !! Work that one out !