Originally Posted by
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What other STAR carrier are you flying? It helps to give us all the information not bits and pieces, if you want a real answer. It seems SQ, TG and NH now have fuel surcharges on their own program award tickets -- not sure about Asiana or UA -- but I booked an NH award with AE miles and paid no fuel surcharge nor did the agent mention anything about paying at the airport.
Ditto with me flying SQ and OZ, no fuel surcharges and no mention of collection at the airport. Sounds to me like one of the "made up" rules we hear every so often...