Originally Posted by
meester69
I think the APD surcharge for premium travel affects YQ - ex-UK, the APD hike means that the YQ charged to premium fares is much less than their fair share, so as to come up with a set of charges that is not unbalanced or distorting.
From non-UK origins, there is no APD, so YQ charged to premium pax is higher, better reflecting the much larger amount of cabin space they occupy.
Although the fuel burned LHR-SFO is not the same as SFO-LHR, nonetheless, this convoluted double-speak sounds faintly ridiculous no?
Basically, it seems as it stands now, the 'fuel surcharge' has no relation to the price of fuel, varies according to market conditions for _total ticket and other tax price_ and is therefore not a fixed 'surcharge' and its primary purpose is additional revenue generation for BA (I have no problem with this bit) by acting as a loophole to allow BA to get more money from corporate discounted fares and award bookings (I do have a problem with this).
If one went to a shop in the US where prices are quoted 'ex-tax' and one found that the total sales price including 'state sales tax' and 'shop sales tax', but the latter was not a tax, did not go to the government, and allowed e.g. the shop to have differential pricing in different locations and all the money went to the shop, but sale prices and other discounts excluded the 'shop sales tax' and the 'shop sales tax' made up 60% of the total price, wouldn't you call that a scam?
tb