Originally Posted by
supermasterphil
plenty of tickets that have a fare of let's say 10 EUR and the rest (another 90 EUR) are fees and taxes are basically fully refundable. All you loose are 10EUR. Let's assume that fuel would be added to the fare... We would loose way more money with nonrefundable tickets!
Some airlines (I know about KL and JQ) have already started a policy of not refunding fuel surcharges on nonrefundable tickets, and others (e.g. BA) simply charge prohibitively high administration charges to do so. Some legal action on this would be fun.