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Old Jun 25, 2008 | 8:34 pm
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flyingfran
 
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Has anyone else heard about this from any other source than a Disney forum? If DL does this will it apply to tickets purchased prior to Monday? I know fuel prices are high but this is an additional $100 to every ticket I purchase. If I can purchase tickets before Monday without a surcharge I think I should probably figure out what we will be doing for the rest of the year and buy my tickets now.

It just seems a bit more dramatic than I think the circumstances warrant. Yes, I know that fuel prices are up, and yes it costs me twice as much to fill my car as it did two years ago, but why wouldn't DL do what every other business is doing and just increase fares to cover fuel costs. It seems a little unfair to put a $100 sur-charge on my trip between JAX-ATL, and put that same surcharge on a flight from ATL to SEA. I think it would be much more fair to have the people who are consuming the fuel pay for it.
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