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Mar 22, 2007 | 4:27 am

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Originally Posted by HB-IWC

Longhaul: AF - 48 Euro vs KL - 55 Euro
Europe: AF - 12 Euro vs KL - 22 Euro

Any reason why these numbers are not equal for both companies?

One thing is sure... Working in an airline myself, I can assure you that fuel surcharges are good business for the airline.

They certainly are, especially because so far they did not result in lower demand and basically all European carriers can afford to play with the surcharges whereas the poor American legacy carriers used to have problems increasing fares, because one or two refused to do so...

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