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Old Jun 26, 2008, 10:33 am
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Originally Posted by flyingfran
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?
They do it because it's a better way to try and bolster the bottom line--it's more effective than unilaterally raising fares.
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