Originally Posted by
edy4eva
Another peculiar observation with regards to taxes for CBR-SYD-LDH:
For paid booking, the taxes come to 134-184AUD depending on the chosen fare as this figure includes GST.
For redemptions, it's still 120.31AUD, even though the GST component should be around 40 dollars less. The same flights through AS quote 84USD.
Icing on the cake? QF do not publish through fares to LDH ex-CBR! So the quoted fares are combinations of CBR-SYD and SYD-LDH fares!
The actual taxes seem to be $82.90. what it looks like is that QF is applying a "fuel" surcharge of approximately $27 for the redemption on top of the taxes
QF will still only be charging GST at 10% on the taxes
With an AS redemption there is no carrier imposed surcharge applied plus, since AS is issuing the ticket outside of Australia, no GST is charged
When selecting flights on the awards booking it does state
Originally Posted by qf.com
About our prices
* Taxes, fees and carrier charges will apply to your booking and are shown on the Check page
Using SYD-CBR to compare. Actual taxes for SYD-CBR are $27.37 and GST on this would be $2.74 for $30.11
Qantas is applying taxes/charges of $47.41
Removing GST , that is approximately $13 surcharge ex GST
I do think that it is wrong that QF gets away with hiding what is just a fare under a collective of taxes/charges