Taipei

I was wondering is new surcharge or just an adjustment of prior surcharge?

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...urcharges.html

jsloan

The latter. Some regulators require fuel surcharges to be published and disclosed publicly; Japan and HK appear to be two such regulators.

Nearly every transoceanic UA fare includes a fuel surcharge. For some tickets, it's much more than the actual fare.

findark

Do the regulators require fixed YQ for all fares? I know ex-US to Europe, there are several different schedules for different fare types.

jsloan

In these markets, it looks that way; presumably, otherwise they'd have multiple columns on those charts. I imagine it could be different in other places.

I suspect that the airlines requested different fuel surcharges for different classes, and some regulator asked if the Jet A they use to fly a J passenger was more expensive than the Jet A for a Y passenger.

findark

Maybe in the UK

I'm honestly bewildered they still use YQ since I don't think international fares are subject to any ad valorem taxes and is base-fare commissioning still a big thing? Meanwhile the number of dumps and other exploitable issues due to the fact that no system handles YQ correctly surely costs them. Some markets (Australia for example) don't have YQ.