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Old Mar 18, 2022 | 12:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Goodoldflyer
From the article:

Delta is planning to introduce fuel surcharges on the international flights which account for about 35% of its business, and increase US ticket prices.

A fuel surcharge is based on fuel costs, not demand.

I think the prices of everything are going to go up a bit this summer.
Airlines always play a game here. The final price of the ticket is very market sensitive. They can add a fuel surcharge, but the total price is subject to demand so they need to adjust the base fare. That is why we had idiotic prices years ago where the base free was near $0 and the fuel surcharge was the main component of the total fare.

I might need to relearn the magic code language and revisit the "trick it" thread":-)
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