Aug 28, 2013, 10:24 am
Last edit by: Microwave
American have confirmed that there is no change to the fuel surcharges being levied on awards, as posted by AmericanAirlines in post #157:
Last night, in a routine effort to better align American to industry standards with other global carriers, American began collecting carrier-imposed surcharges on tickets for travel on other carrier’s metal. This change was intended for revenue tickets only, but the surcharge was erroneously added to AAdvantage award redemptions on other airlines as well. Except in the cases of British Airways and Iberia (where American currently collects these surcharges), no carrier-imposed surcharges will be applied when redeeming AAdvantage miles for award travel on other carriers. Any customers who encountered this fee in error will be fully refunded.
AA adds fuel surcharges on some international awards? [NO]
Aug 28, 2013, 10:04 am
#151
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See, tha marketing strategy worked...
We're exactly back where we were a few hours ago, and plenty of people here are saying all kinds of good things about AA for doing...nothing. Marketing genius 
Cheers.
Cheers.
Aug 28, 2013, 10:04 am
#152
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Pretty sure we are safe there...
Aug 28, 2013, 10:06 am
#153
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Perhaps this YQ surcharge on International tickets was in the works for some time, and someone accidently pulled the trigger today. My bet is that it was intended to be implemented following the DOJ blessing of the merger. This is a sneak preview of what is to come. @:-)
Next test will show us the booking fee being added. All as a customer benefit of the merger, you see!
Aug 28, 2013, 10:07 am
#154
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Perhaps this YQ surcharge on International tickets was in the works for some time, and someone accidently pulled the trigger today. My bet is that it was intended to be implemented following the DOJ blessing of the merger. This is a sneak preview of what is to come. @:-)
Aug 28, 2013, 10:09 am
#155
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The way it's written, it's saving face through lying: AA has been doing what it said the change was intended to do (collect YQ/YR on all tickets it sells for virtually all airlines) for a long long time.
Edited to add: Oh I now see it came from the PR people in the Facebook account...they probably don't understand pricing anyways, so I'm willing to bet that's the statement that is wrong.
Edited to add: Oh I now see it came from the PR people in the Facebook account...they probably don't understand pricing anyways, so I'm willing to bet that's the statement that is wrong.
Aug 28, 2013, 10:11 am
#156
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It was an error. We can all CTFO now.
Aug 28, 2013, 10:11 am
#157
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Confirming the reports shared by linglingfool and incognitoMD, here's the latest update on the issue being discussed within this thread.
Last night, in a routine effort to better align American to industry standards with other global carriers, American began collecting carrier-imposed surcharges on tickets for travel on other carrier’s metal. This change was intended for revenue tickets only, but the surcharge was erroneously added to AAdvantage award redemptions on other airlines as well. Except in the cases of British Airways and Iberia (where American currently collects these surcharges), no carrier-imposed surcharges will be applied when redeeming AAdvantage miles for award travel on other carriers. Any customers who encountered this fee in error will be fully refunded.
Last night, in a routine effort to better align American to industry standards with other global carriers, American began collecting carrier-imposed surcharges on tickets for travel on other carrier’s metal. This change was intended for revenue tickets only, but the surcharge was erroneously added to AAdvantage award redemptions on other airlines as well. Except in the cases of British Airways and Iberia (where American currently collects these surcharges), no carrier-imposed surcharges will be applied when redeeming AAdvantage miles for award travel on other carriers. Any customers who encountered this fee in error will be fully refunded.
Aug 28, 2013, 10:13 am
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EDIT: I WAS WRONG, THIS IS NOT CORRECT.
Last edited by StevenH123; Aug 28, 2013 at 10:52 am
Aug 28, 2013, 10:18 am
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Aug 28, 2013, 10:20 am
#162
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Aug 28, 2013, 10:20 am
#163
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I hope this is true.
"Good News: American Confirms No New Award Fees"
http://thepointsguy.com/2013/08/good...ew-award-fees/
"Good News: American Confirms No New Award Fees"
http://thepointsguy.com/2013/08/good...ew-award-fees/
Aug 28, 2013, 10:21 am
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Aug 28, 2013, 10:21 am
#165
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This is not the case: status was status, and a soft landing would result when falling from one elite level to another not having qualified for the lower status suo jure, irrespective of how the higher status was obtained.