Originally Posted by
TopGunner
For those who might care, I changed my above itinerary to replace the AA codeshares on IB and CX for MAD-LHR and JFK-HKG, respectively, and it shaved off about 1,641ZAR or $164 in fuel fines. New total is 10,149ZAR approx $1,015.
QR in general and AA TATL fuel fines are not pretty. However, I still think I am being overcharged, I have gone and tried to manually price the fuel fines in an unscientific manner, although the CX fines are correct because those are clearly published and they have been slightly reduced as of Oct 1.
Route Airline YQ
JNB-DOH QR $80.50
DOH-MAD QR $80.50
MAD-xLHR IB $40.88
xLHR-LAX AA $288 (RT is 576)
LAX-JFK AA $0
JFK-HKG CX $103.70
HKG-NRT CX $23.50
NRT-HKG CX $23.50
HKG-JNB CX $103.70
Total $744 (8,109ZAR)
Wanted to update my ongoing saga with AA trying to deconstruct the fuel fines. I started a new booking from scratch as follows:
JNB-QR-xDOH-QR-MAD
MAD-AB-xDUS-AB-LAX
LAX-AA-JFK
JFK-AA/CX-HKG
HKG-CX-NRT
NRT-CX-HKG
HKG-CX-JNB
This priced out at:
Fare 59,070ZAR
Tax 2,025ZAR
YQ 8,922ZAR
This was a reduction of 1,100ZAR or US$100 from flying AA TATL. The big question is AA 77W worth the $100 upgrade from AB?
I was told in multiple conversations that a computer calculates the YQ/YR therefore agents cannot give detail or breakdown of these. Is this really the case or was I being told to take it or leave it?