eightblack

Bulletin to Travel Agents:

13 February 2013

Revision of Fuel Surcharge ( Effective 25th February 2013 )

Dear Business Partners,

Cost of Aviation fuel has been quite stable in the 1st half of 2012, however, in the last quarter of 2012, we are seeing a rise.

In view of this, we are revising the fuel surcharge and this will come into effect from 25th February 2013.

The increased surcharges will be applicable to all tickets issued
on or after 25th February 2013.

All group bookings made on/before 24th February will be honoured at current surcharge levels even if ticketed on/after 25th February in accordance with their contracts.

Append below is a table showing the level of surcharges.



For further information, kindly refer to your GDS system.

Kindly inform your valued customers on the revised fuel surcharge rate and to have their tickets issued before 25th February 2013 in order to avoid paying the increase in fuel surcharge.

Thank you for your kind attention and cooperation.

marconess

Can somebody list what the fuel surcharges currently are?

eightblack

They went up 5-7%, so I suppose not too bad...

Dave Noble

Hmmm...surely if fuel prices have been stable, there is no justification for any fuel surcharge and should all be incorporated as part of the base fare by putting base fares up accordingly

eightblack

Dave, on behalf of the EK forum, I nominate you to fight this battle on our behalf with EK Head office...

mrtdxb

A fare increase by any other name ...

Joe_EK

Is Qantas a fan of YQ?

If so, perhaps the EK interpretation of ''customers will get the best of both'' is fairly liberal :-)

lsed

wow never realized F / J fares had much higher YQ.

I havent bought an EK ticket since Dubai do!

Dave Noble

Except it is not just a fare increase, it can also cause an increase in award costs too

m27

does the fuel surcharge fall under the taxes and fees bit of the fare breakdown? or the airfare? thanks

scwappy

The lack of earning of points on EK compared to some airlines, was in my opinion, more offset by the availability of redemptions and upgrades and lack of fuel surcharges. Being based in Australia the fuel surcharges are nearly that high for economy tickets you may as well just buy a ticket.

Will be interesting to see on the availability front once those dam Roo flyers start having access to EK award inventory. I think it will end up like the QF situation from Australia now in that you need to book award J class the day they become available (ie 330 days or something) otherwise you're .... outta luck.

daisymay2

Following Eightblack's heads up here I booked a flight the other day.
Just checked the fare and the first figure showed an increase of £69.
The booking site then had tech problems and wouldnt let me continue.
Just tried again and the fare had changed - and now its an increase of £14.
Looking at the fare before taxes etc though the increase is on there and not on the tax/fees/charges element.

m27

flights to Bangkok seem to have risen by about £14

daisymay2

That sounds about right. But I cant understand why its added to the fare element and not the tax etc element.

Dave Noble

Looking at the current fare for a journey I purchased on sunday, I can see that the actual published fare has increased rather than there be any "fuel" surcharge

Although fare increases are not a great thing, a 1.1% (USD68) fare rise is better than a disguised fare rise

Looking at a couple of other flights ( such as AMS-SYD ) it does seem that the actual fare has been increased there too

It does look like EK hasn't fully embraced feeding from the trough of surcharges, just certain locations