Originally Posted by
24left
@D582
The $108.12 listed under "surcharges" for July last year makes no sense to me from a detail perspective as there is no "Carrier Surcharges" line on the ticket or screen shot of the booking AND it is not charged on the CX ticket from the same time. So, if AC was charging a "peak surcharge" for last July, CX was not on the exact same route.
The Peak/Seasonal surcharge is simply a 'fare surcharge' to allow for different pricing depending on travel date. This enables the airline to publish one base fare that is valid for a long time, and then add surcharges to it depending on the travel date. The other alternative is to publish a bunch of different fares for different travel dates, but using the surcharge approach makes this much more manageable.
How CX chooses to publish their fares can be totally different than AC. Also, sometimes carriers will list 'Base Fare' on their websites that is inclusive of the fare surcharges, and you can only see the breakdown in the fare calculation line.
Also, I still don't know how the "Carrier Surcharge" line item is also missing from all of the September tickets, so I assumed AC built it into the fare.
Because HK did not permit YQ/YR at that time. AC could have increased their fares to compensate, or not.
I posted on this forum last year that HKG was charging an additional fee to cover the costs for the planned third runway. I'm sure that cost is buried in there somewhere.
The runway construction fee is charged as a tax on the ticket (code G3).
Code:
TAX CODE TAX NAME
G3 AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION FEE
COUNTRY CODE COUNTRY NAME
HK HONG KONG SAR CHINA
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