Originally Posted by
spleenstomper
I have been googling and all I see is:
Northwest's fuel charge one way went up to 165.00 on June 10.
All Nippon and Japan Airlines are going up on tickets purchased on/after July 1 to 253.00 each way.
Haven't found anything about Delta yet.
Would someone explain to me why the airlines charge a flat sur-charge fee rather than just increasing fares. It seems really unfair to have the same sur-charge applied to a $125 fare between JAX-ATL versus the same sur-charge for a $500 fare between JAX-SEA. That seems so unfair that I cannot understand why a single person in management would even think about that idea for more than 30 seconds.
Am I reading the previous post correctly? Does Northwest add $330 in fuel sur-charges to the price of every round-trip ticket?