With gas prices hitting record levels, consumers need to secure their fall and winter 2006 vacation now ... We are expecting an increase in fuel surcharges on international flights as well as domestic and Caribbean for the upcoming season. This will mark the third fuel surcharge that consumers will be subjected to in 2005 alone.
Quotes about surcharges (7 Quotes)
I think FedEx wanted to get out in front of the curve on this issue to beat UPS to the punch. Having a 5.5 general rate increase, but reducing the fuel-surcharge index by 2 gives a 3.5net average rate increase. They wanted to get that out there first, because there is a huge disparity between UPS and FedEx in terms of fuel surcharges. FedEx is at 20 and UPS is at 12.5.
For those consumers planning to travel, surcharges could total an additional 75 per person on average. Typically, when one major airline implements a fuel surcharge, other airlines promptly adjust their fares as a result. ... We want to keep consumers up to date and give them the tools to make the informed choices.
Surcharges are the first step down a road that America may not want to travel. Surcharges sound nice when you talk about smokers because everyone hates smokers. But what about all the other bad habits that people have
Hedging has built up over the last few months, but airlines have been hedged to a certain extent by their ability to add surcharges successfully.
The mechanism of surcharges might be better than trying to put things in the fare because if fuel prices go up, the surcharge reflects that. We're going to have to learn to live with surcharges - it's not something we like to do but we do need to pass on some of these costs.
Then it got corrupted with a capital C when Saddam figured out how to make money off of it by putting on the surcharges and kickbacks,