Originally Posted by
Shareholder
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.
And I think that Shareholder has part of the answer here: my award ticket lists a YQ surcharge of $124 separate and apart from the $196 YQ surcharge imposed by Aeroplan/AC for the all-AC return part of my journey.
Either the kind agent doesn't know how to read tickets to pick out fuel surcharges or she was, ermmm, not telling the truth. I'd hate to think it was the latter. Something has got to happen to Aeroplan's fuel surcharges; they are out to lunch.
Total fuel surcharges using my existing routing: $320. Total using an all-AC routing: about $640. This is not a trivial difference that is easily explained away. This looks like gouging to me, plain and simple.