Originally Posted by makin'miles

I'd need to go back and look at the figures for specifics, but it was something along the lines of $3500 fare plus $500 carrier surcharge ($4000 total) on the original ticket. New fare was something like $4200 plus $300 carrier surcharge ($4500 total). I would have expected that BA would have collected an additional $500 from me, in addition to the change fee. Instead, they collected $700 fare difference, so no portion of the carrier/fuel surcharge was folded into the new ticket, but simply forfeited.