Comments on: When will fuel-related surcharges retreat? The answer is … http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/when-will-fuel-related-surcharges-retreat-the-answer-is/ The last honest travel site Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:19:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vanessa delramos http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/when-will-fuel-related-surcharges-retreat-the-answer-is/comment-page-1/#comment-5459 vanessa delramos Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:09:06 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5199#comment-5459 Honestly, the other way for the airlines to recoup lost profits due to fuel prices is to increase airfare/. I'm sure many people out there don't realize that before 9/11, tickets were double and triple what they cost now. Are people willing to pay double the price of their tickets these days? no way. so they are getting hit somehow. and rightfully so! at least people have a choice to make when they ask for a pillow and take an extra bag on board. Honestly, the other way for the airlines to recoup lost profits due to fuel prices is to increase airfare/. I’m sure many people out there don’t realize that before 9/11, tickets were double and triple what they cost now. Are people willing to pay double the price of their tickets these days? no way. so they are getting hit somehow. and rightfully so!

at least people have a choice to make when they ask for a pillow and take an extra bag on board.

]]> By: Geoff http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/when-will-fuel-related-surcharges-retreat-the-answer-is/comment-page-1/#comment-5371 Geoff Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:47:17 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5199#comment-5371 If I had just lost 2.7 billion in the last quarter for United alone, I might never lower my fares again. Think about it. They lost it and need to recover that lost.....quite franly, there is not one person in the industry intelligent enough to make it happen, but high travel prices are here to stay.......until the next $2.00 sale to stimulate travel. When they passed out brains, the industry say no thank you, I don't need none. If I had just lost 2.7 billion in the last quarter for United alone, I might never lower my fares again. Think about it. They lost it and need to recover that lost…..quite franly, there is not one person in the industry intelligent enough to make it happen, but high travel prices are here to stay…….until the next $2.00 sale to stimulate travel. When they passed out brains, the industry say no thank you, I don’t need none.

]]> By: jaxon http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/when-will-fuel-related-surcharges-retreat-the-answer-is/comment-page-1/#comment-5356 jaxon Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:08:47 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5199#comment-5356 Within days of the agreement with the Fl AG NOT to allow the cruise lines to charge fuel surcharges to previously booked customers, I noticed the port and tax line for my cruise go up over 70%. A blogger on cruise critic wrote the company and was told they had made adjustments to the port fee/tax line to more accurately reflect true costs -- HOGWASH! Like the airlines, the cruise ships (at least RCI where I had booked), are just into gouging, and frankly, it's time for another port fee/tax law suit to determine the accuracy of the claim. The timing was just too coincidental for my reasoning mind. Within days of the agreement with the Fl AG NOT to allow the cruise lines to charge fuel surcharges to previously booked customers, I noticed the port and tax line for my cruise go up over 70%. A blogger on cruise critic wrote the company and was told they had made adjustments to the port fee/tax line to more accurately reflect true costs — HOGWASH! Like the airlines, the cruise ships (at least RCI where I had booked), are just into gouging, and frankly, it’s time for another port fee/tax law suit to determine the accuracy of the claim. The timing was just too coincidental for my reasoning mind.

]]> By: Matthew B http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/when-will-fuel-related-surcharges-retreat-the-answer-is/comment-page-1/#comment-5345 Matthew B Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:19:07 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5199#comment-5345 If these fees, whether airline, cruisline, rail line or bus line, really had to do with fuel, the carriers would have modified their contracts of carriage to provide that additional charges were payable on the day of departure if fuel prices at the point of travel were above a certain price. E.g. Carnival might say that if on the day of departure, marine diesel fuel at the Port of Miami is more than $X.XX, $X per passenger per day will be due at check in. They haven't done this because these surcharges are really about increasing ticket prices without increasing the commissions paid to travel agents etc. If these fees, whether airline, cruisline, rail line or bus line, really had to do with fuel, the carriers would have modified their contracts of carriage to provide that additional charges were payable on the day of departure if fuel prices at the point of travel were above a certain price. E.g. Carnival might say that if on the day of departure, marine diesel fuel at the Port of Miami is more than $X.XX, $X per passenger per day will be due at check in.

They haven’t done this because these surcharges are really about increasing ticket prices without increasing the commissions paid to travel agents etc.

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