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Old May 2, 2012 | 4:27 am
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Originally Posted by Paralytic
This came up recently and HIDDY pointed our that BA had been generous in their application of the law, but that has changed recently:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/18441221-post50.html

So, it seems that Brazilian law forbids YQ on paid-for flights, but they can charge it on redemptions.
Amazing, so they have no surcharge on revenue tickets and thus clearly increase the actual flight price to reflect the real cost, and then decide the actual flight cost is a lot less when flying on a redemption ticket, but there is a fuel cost ?

As clear as can be that the fuel "surcharge" is not a fuel surcharge, but rather an award surcharge. It obviously isn't illegal, but personally it leaves a bad taste that for this route they are now manufacturing a surcharge purely for award tickets, and calling it a fuel surcharge where no such charge exists on the route.
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