Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
I just booked a DONE3 through AA RTW desk. It's currently on hold. Pricing came back from the rate desk as expected, correct base fare plus various fees and charges. Almost all of those extra fees were less than USD $100, in fact, all but one were under $75. The exception was "CARRIER-IMPOSED FEES" which were $392.10. Is this fuel surcharges? Any way to reduce it?
Yes, these carrier imposed fees are what used to be called fuel surcharges
My understanding is that some jurisdictions started requiring airlines to justify their fuel surcharges; so the airlines just changed the name of imposition - to either YQ or YR or both
What you're seeing is the sum of the YQs and YRs for some/all of the flights in your itinerary. You can use
The Matrix to:
- understand which flights have YQ and/or YR imposed
- see the effect of changing to codeshares
On a DONE5 in 2106/17 I was able to shave a bit off the charges by switching two flights to codeshare (AY's LHR-HEL switched to the BA codeshare and AY's HEL-MAD switched to the IB codeshare)