Fuel Surcharge Differences on xONEx Fares
Mar 13, 2009 | 12:14 pm
#16
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Immigration and Naturalization Service Fee 22,000.00 KRW
Finland - Passenger Fee - International 20,400.00 KRW
Passenger Facility Charges 7,100.00 KRW
Passenger Service Charge (International) for
South Korea 28,000.00 KRW
International Departure Tax for Chile 47,000.00 KRW
UK Passenger Service Charge 46,500.00 KRW
U.S Animal and Plant Inspection Service Users Fee 15,800.00 KRW
U.S Customs Fee 17,200.00 KRW
September 11th Security Fee 8,000.00 KRW
Finland - Security Charge - Domestic International 9,000.00 KRW
total taxes/surcharges = 221,000.00 KRW
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Adult traveller(s)
Immigration and Naturalization Service Fee 22,000.00 KRW
Finland - Passenger Fee - International 20,400.00 KRW
Passenger Facility Charges 7,100.00 KRW
Passenger Service Facilities Charge - Japan 32,400.00 KRW
Passenger Service Charge (International) for
South Korea 28,000.00 KRW
International Departure Tax for Chile 47,000.00 KRW
UK Passenger Service Charge 46,500.00 KRW
Airline Insurance Surcharge 5,100.00 KRW
U.S Animal and Plant Inspection Service Users Fee 15,800.00 KRW
U.S Customs Fee 17,200.00 KRW
September 11th Security Fee 8,000.00 KRW
Finland - Security Charge - Domestic International 9,000.00 KRW
total taxes/surcharges = 258,500.00 KRW
Aside from the 2 bolded items which QF charges (probably due to the NRT stopover), the taxes are the same. It may be just a function of the fact that LA and AY had 3 long haul flights, while there were only 2 AA long-haul flights.
Mar 13, 2009 | 12:32 pm
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I'm extremely intrigued as to how you've avoided the Airline Fuel Surcharge --- the general source of large differences between quotes (and the purpose of this thread) ---for both itineraries
Would you please clarify again what exactly are the differences between the 2 itineraries in regard to the first 2 legs ---- i.e. dates, times, flight number to NRT, flight number to JFK?
Would you please clarify again what exactly are the differences between the 2 itineraries in regard to the first 2 legs ---- i.e. dates, times, flight number to NRT, flight number to JFK?
Mar 13, 2009 | 12:49 pm
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I'm extremely intrigued as to how you've avoided the Airline Fuel Surcharge --- the general source of large differences between quotes (and the purpose of this thread) ---for both itineraries
Would you please clarify again what exactly are the differences between the 2 itineraries in regard to the first 2 legs ---- i.e. dates, times, flight number to NRT, flight number to JFK?
Would you please clarify again what exactly are the differences between the 2 itineraries in regard to the first 2 legs ---- i.e. dates, times, flight number to NRT, flight number to JFK?
Mar 13, 2009 | 1:09 pm
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You might also want to look at posts 6-8 on this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...-question.html
In note 11 above, headinclouds reported that he had booked an itinerary where the first two legs were
ICN (JL) NRT
stopover
NRT (AA) JFK
and in his note 16, this JL itinerary (ticketed by QF) had no YQ Airline Fuel Surcharge of any kind. I tried replicating that and can't ---- can you?
Feb 8, 2010 | 1:40 am
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Here I am at home convalescing after having my appendix removed (thanks in advance for all your get well wishes
) - so I decided to do a little study of the Fuel Surcharges that airlines will charge for the same itinerary. The tables below summarise the results
For simplicity I devised an itinerary that keeps the number of segments low – namely
Summary results in local currency:
Summary results in AUD:
YQ Findings:
) - so I decided to do a little study of the Fuel Surcharges that airlines will charge for the same itinerary. The tables below summarise the resultsFor simplicity I devised an itinerary that keeps the number of segments low – namely
LHR-(BA/CX/QF)-HKG-(JL)-NRT-(AA)-JFK-(LA)-SCL-(IB)-MAD-(RJ)-AMM-BUD-(AY)-HEL-LHR
Starting from LHR – I produced three itineraries – one with a BA flight for the first segment, then CX then QF. The next itinerary started from HKG flying JL – it ended with a LHR-HKG tagged on the end. And so on, ending with an itinerary starting BUD-HEL and ending AMM-BUDSummary results in local currency:
Code:
Airline Start Cur’cy Base All Tax YQ Component BA LHR GBP 2,052 442.20 178.00 CX LHR GBP 2,052 412.70 112.00 QF LHR GBP 2,052 442.20 185.50 JL HKG HKD 27,600 2,959 78.00 AA NRT JPY 370,000 31,340 3,500 LA JFK USD 4,404 225.98 - IB SCL USD 3,304 596.29 190.00 RJ MAD EUR 2,472 246.62 107.62 MA AMM AY BUD HUF 637,800 70,000 -
Code:
Airline Start Base All Tax YQ Component BA LHR 3,697.30 796.76 320.72 CX LHR 3,697.30 743.60 201.80 QF LHR 3,697.30 796.76 334.23 JL HKG 4,107.14 440.33 11.61 AA NRT 4,786.55 405.43 45.28 LA JFK 5,091.33 261.25 - IB SCL 3,819.65 689.35 219.65 RJ MAD 3,899.05 388.99 169.75 MA AMM AY BUD 3,665.52 402.30 -
- The tool would not let me start an itinerary with MA as the first carrier (neither AMM-BUD nor BUD-HEL)
- AY and LA charged no YQ
- JL and AA charged a small YQ
- RJ, CX and IB were in the middle
- BA and QF were the expensive ones