Reuters reports: CHICAGO (Reuters) - UAL Corp (UAUA.O: Quote, Profile, Research), parent of United Airlines, will shrink its fleet by up to 4 percent this year to combat the skyrocketing cost of jet fuel, the chief executive of the No. 2 U.S. carrier said on Tuesday. In a message to employees, Glenn Tilton said the…
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You don't hate to see higher fuel costs as a consumer, you hate to see it as a 1K MR'er. ;->
Fuel surcharges make no sense to me. It's just a cost of doing business like labor, food, cleaning, maintenance and should be part of the overall fare. It's like those $2 "energy surcharges" that some hotels were adding to your room rate a while ago. Starbucks isn't adding a "coffee surcharge" to your latte when the price of coffee beans on the world market goes up (as it has in recent months). They raise their prices.
With that, the cost of earning miles through flying is going up as well, and thus the "fuel surcharge" is already built into the "free" award ticket. I think if they start nickeling and diming people on their award tickets, the only thing they'll achieve is turn people off from collecting miles. After all, if my "free" ticket costs me
- $75 for
arggghh... I used the "less than" character in my post, which the blog software than decided to use as a reason to drop the rest... here is what I wrote:
- $75 for less than 14 day advance booking
- $100 fuel surcharge
- $25 second suitcase
- $10 taxes and fees
on top of the 25,000 miles, who's still consider that a "free" trip?