Huge Decrease in Fuel Surcharges as of November 1
 

OZ will drastically decrease their fuel surcharges for ticketing done between November 1 and December 31, 2008. The decrease more than offsets the previous increase.

One-way surcharges are as follows:

Long haul (Korea-USA/Europe) reduced from $221 to $140

Short haul reduced from $98 to $62

Between Korea/Japan reduced from $50 to $32

As long as you can hold out for another 4 weeks before ticketing you can save quite a bit.

This is great news, especially for award tickets!

that is good news as well..

howd you learn that fuel surcharges would go down in November a_lee?

i hope their base fares can be competitive as well with other airlines....since their fares from Asia are still a little bit high compared to fares from the US.

Probably from a Korean news source like I did, which in my case was a newspaper website. :D

I got that information from the news section of their English language website:
http://flyasiana.com/english/

I believe that this surcharge reduction is for flights originating in Korea. For flights originating elsewhere I don't know if the same surcharge pricing applies or not. For instance flights originating in the U.S. already have a lower surcharge I believe, so they may or may not be getting a reduction.