[False Alarm] AA Imposing YQ on Int'l award tix...UA please don't follow the pack
Aug 28, 2013, 10:44 am
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Yep, in that example using miles (if YQ was charged) would only save ~30% from actually purchasing the ticket. Sometimes its even worse.
Aug 28, 2013, 11:41 am
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I asked the agent about it, and she called up the rates department to figure out why there were fuel surcharges on the ticket, because she agreed they’re not usually charged for travel on Malaysia. After a few minutes she came back and read me the memo, which stated that as of August 28 (today) American will be imposing fuel surcharges for award tickets on all carriers… even for international travel on American!
Aug 28, 2013, 3:49 pm
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A definite possiblity. AA's explanation - that the change to collecting YQ was only supposed to apply to revenue tickets - makes no sense. They're already collecting YQ on revenue tickets.
Aug 28, 2013, 4:00 pm
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Aug 28, 2013, 8:00 pm
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http://boardingarea.com/viewfromthew...dnt-scare-you/
This clearly begs the question, why put out the memo in the first place? Didn’t American already add fuel surcharges onto revenue tickets? It turns out they weren’t (gosh I wish I had realized this earlier…).
And indeed it was Malaysia Airlines where fuel surcharges started getting collected on award tickets (LOT is not a mileage redemption partner). So this makes sense — they programmed the change for Malaysia Airlines (among others) and it affected all bookings on Malaysia, not just revenue fares.
Two airlines we did not collect from previously, as examples, were Malaysian Airlines and LOT Polish Airlines.