Originally Posted by
pbarnette
Agreed. Carrier-imposed should be in, and government-imposed can be excluded as far as I am concerned. Really, though I don't really care one way or the other what they include. I didn't think it a huge problem before, or at least not one that materially impacted my search costs.
It was a big problem before for the many pax that use public booking engines such as expedia etc... some airlines would advertise a crazy low 'fare' which ended up being hundreds higher when you got through to almost the end of the booking process, since at that point they would tack on the fuel surcharges, fees, and taxes. Remember seeing crap like $129 tatl fares, but the ticket had another 600 in fuel and taxes on it?