Bad news: British Airways adding fuel surcharges to US Airways flights

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• swissy says:

  9 Jul9 July 07:14

  What about using US Dividend miles on BA stock ?

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:47

    US started adding fuel surcharges to BA flights a few weeks ago. For technical reasons it wasn’t happening for the first few weeks after they joined oneworld in April.

• PGW says:

  9 Jul9 July 07:27

  Another very good reason for thinking about joining AAdvantage or at least crediting your BA flights to it. I’ve just made a comparison between AA & BA on MAN-MCO and the difference in charges is staggering.

• Paul says:

  9 Jul9 July 07:33

  I do wish people would stop referring to these rip off charges as taxes. They are not. The UK does not benefit in any way from BA gauging of passengers and calling them taxes simply let’s BA off the hook.

  It really is time we had some sort class action against them for imposing fees when the operating carrier does not. Either that of the office of fair reading makes them advertise the huge level off fees every time the Avios symbol orBA logo is used.

  • Ken says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:17

    The Office of Fair Reading sounds like an interesting organisation, but if it’s OFT then they’ve been abolished and replaced by the CMA, Competition and Markets Authority – but yes…go for it!

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:46

    I am trying to write ‘taxes and charges’ at least once per post now!

  • wobbly wings says:

    9 Jul9 July 10:26

    As someone who has made this point many times I can only agree!! It’s a scam. It nearly makes RyanAir “booking fees” look legit in comparison.

    • callum says:

      10 Jul10 July 00:01

      In what way is it a scam? They are upfront about charging this fee, and always have been.

      It’s incredibly annoying, and I won’t redeem my avios for transatlantic flights because of it, but I hardly see how it warrants threatening legal action. It seems like nowadays people have no interest in determining whether something is actually legal or not before suggesting legal action against it, thinking that just because they dislike it, the law will force them to change. That’s not how the law works.

    • Aeronaut says:

      12 Jul12 July 07:55

      Though the ‘new’ Ryanair doesn’t go in for all that booking fee nonsense any more (and the credit card surcharge is now 2%).

• Steve says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:11

  Well that saves me the job of hunting down availability out of Manchester for next Summer.

• oyster says:

  9 Jul9 July 09:18

  I wonder why BA hasn’t introduced a scheme to allow use of Avios to pay for fees. Obviously I’d expect it to be at a poor rate like 0.25p per Avios.

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:45

    Because of the large number of Avios in the system BA seems very nervous about letting you use them instead of cash. Look at ‘part pay with Avios’ where the number of Avios you can use is laughably small.

    Iberia has just launched the same and its even worse – post to follow soon.

• Mikeact says:

  9 Jul9 July 09:34

  Am I likely to be asked at check in, to pay the outstanding charges?

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:44

    No, don’t worry

• Evan says:

  9 Jul9 July 10:09

  On a sort of related note, I transferred 60k SPG points Monday to AA and 90k posted this morning.

  Also noticed there were 2 seats twice a day CLT-LHR on US posted Monday morning (making me transfer!) that were all filled/pulled that afternoon.

• Lady London says:

  9 Jul9 July 12:03

  greed. GREED
  and lies

  • Rob says:

    9 Jul9 July 12:37

    Technically all BA is doing is adding on the fuel surcharge that US has added to the GDS. BA hasn’t done anything to trigger this. The fact that BA gets to keep the money (the ticketing airline keeps the fuel surcharge, not the flying airline) is beside the point.

    With airberlin, AB charges its own TopBonus members a surcharge. However, because it is not broken out in the ticket price in the GDS, BA does not add one on. It works both ways.

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