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Fuel surcharge

sfwilshire

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I shouldn't be surprised, but I booked a flight reservation for today last Friday, but waited until Monday to ticket it to be sure that the trip wouldn't get cancelled. In the meantime, US Air added an extra $40 fuel surcharge. Nearly $900 for a one hour flight and they wanted to charge me $2 for a soda.

Plus I didn't want to check my bag and pay $15, so I had to dig out a small bag. The zipper was wrecked on my favorite carryon size bag (right after I paid a luggage repair shop to replace the broken leg). I need to find a good maximum size carryon bag. I've been looking online, but I really like to touch and feel a bag before I decide.

Flying is no fun at all any more.

Sheila
 

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I used to suggest that folks buy TS's where they like to vacation.
Perhaps that should be amended to where they can walk to.
 

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Some European airlines, primarily LCC's like RyanAir and Sky Europe, are taking a firm position that fuel is part of the overall product and should not be charged for seperately as a ''surcharge''. Hooray for them!
 
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