Those of us based in Europe are already whacked with a $200+ Delta surcharge on both revenue and AWARD tickets trans-Atlantic. Someone at the revenue desk at DL told me a few months ago that they intended to take this systemwide eventually. Maybe ''eventually'' will arrive on Monday.
While I have managed to burn all but about 80K of the miles I had accumulated in my years as a DL Gold Medallion, I am outraged that these DL pirates are hellbent on capturing my NW Worldperks miles and subjecting them to the same fraud on their customers.
Fuel is an integral part of the basic product. Airplanes do not fly without it. the only honest way to include increases in fuel costs is to raise the base fare, not play dishonest shell games with ''fuel surcharges''.