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Old Oct 14, 2008, 2:05 am
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airoli
 
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Originally Posted by kiez
There I have to disappoint you, since lx ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY TO RAISE fares by more than 3%. This might have to do with the fact that airlines hjedge fuel well in andvance and so rewcent fuel price drop might only affect us in the far future
Note that these are (unfortunately) two separate items: One is the base fare (LX has announced a 3% increase for the winter timetable), the other is the "fuel surcharge" (which of course should be included in the base fare, but let's not go there ). For the latter, LX has stated that they will remove the last two increases if the oil price remains <$120 / barrel for 28 consecutive days. This should be the case soon.
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