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Qantas to bring in credit-card surcharge
By Geesche Jacobsen and AAP
February 10 2003
Qantas will become one of the first companies to charge customers for using credit cards to pay for their holidays.
The one-per-cent surcharge
will start from the beginning of April, but would recoup less than half the transaction costs charged by banks, Qantas's marketing manager John Borghetti said yesterday.
The move has been allowed under Reserve Bank reforms which came into effect on January 1, allowing merchants the right to recover bank charges for credit card transactions.
In January Caltex announced it would allow its franchise operators to decide what credit card surcharge to charge their customers. However, Caltex-owned stores - less than five per cent of all Caltex service stations - would not charge a fee.
Virgin Blue was also considering a charge, but had not made a decision, a spokeswoman said last night.
Mr Borghetti said Qantas could not continue to absorb a broad range of charges imposed on it while domestic airfares were at a historic low.