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Old Jan 15, 2004 | 7:55 pm
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The fuel surchage is a bit questionable. The price of fuel is a cost of doing business but the airlines do not want to raise their base rates so they put the surchage in the tax accounting lines. These taxes do not have to be shown when looking at published fares.

Even the DOT does not like this and is trying to stop the airlines from doing this.
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