Monday, October 16, 2006

Fuel Surcharges

The New Zealand website Scoop reported today that Singapore Airlines had decided to lower its fuel surcharge. You can read the full story here. In New Zealand, airfares have to be all-inclusive (not Fare + Taxes + Surcharges), so it would seem that there is no price drop for tickets sold inside NZ.

Meanwhile, also today (spooky, huh?), Qantas announced it too was reducing it fuel surcharge, although News Corp could not help notice that last week Qantas had actually announced a fare rise. Was the fare increase and the surcharge decrease designed to offset each other, the paper asked?

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