jerryhung
Thanks for posting this. Interesting column

Recently in another thread, someone asks the question about when AC fuel surcharge was renamed.

QUOTE from the article:

"Those taxes and fees don’t bother me and are just a fact of life. The one “tax” that’s on there that is purely a money grab is the “Carrier Surcharge”. This used to be called “Fuel Surcharge” until government regulations required that these “fuel surcharges” needed to be tied to the actual cost of fuel. This happened in and around 2012 and since that time, airlines tiptoed around that regulation and now call their cash grab “carrier surcharge”.

Otherwise, I liked a YQ example he posted - ET on the ADD-YYZ route on Aeroplan, which showed taxes charged for France and Germany, countries that the flight does not go to or through.