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Old Jul 2, 2012 | 12:28 pm
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Brazil law "forbids" airlines to create a separate line for fuel surcharges.

Airlines create a separate item line for fuel surcharge primarily for tax reasons, but removing the fuel surcharge will not reduce your airfare, they will just build it in the base airfare instead and pay more business tax.
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