Originally Posted by
henkybaby
Certain countries (i.e. Japan) require airlines to be completely transparent about what carrier charges are. Consequently all airlines call them fuel surcharges if ticketed from one of those countries. Maybe Scotland has similar rules.
The change from Fuel Surcharges to Carrier Charges was lead by BA and in anticipation of changing law in the US. Carrier surcharges need no specification and do not have to be explained. There is an article about this somewhere on another thread about this.
As I commented in another thread, I've also noticed that all the dummy bookings I've made recently clearly reference a fuel surcharge (specifically ex LHR/LGW). So lets not give Scotland too much credit for promoting transparency here :-)