Reply To: Lufthansa – sneaky new service charge disguised as virtue signalling

[Lady London]

It’s also a bit like water rates, which used to be included in the general rates (ie community charge/local taxes). Any fool with an eye could see that once the water cost was split out seprately it would have a life of its own and go up massively into the future.

Even having worked this out and predicted this, at the time it was mooted we had no idea how bad the newly proposed separated extra water charge would get to be. In terms of pricing, in particular.

At that time I hadn’t done my degree and wasn’t yet working in the City otherwise I might have worked out the stream of infrasructure income for Water was being picked out and fattened like a goose for privatisation.

And thus we now have sky high water charges as well as some pretty high community charges. And it seems the water charges have mostly disappeared into investors’ pockets and we literally have $h1t in our water and rivers because the ripoff contracts the privatised-profit water companies got away with failed to include the insistence on capital investment and to restrict the debt loadings whilst massive profits have been paid out in various different forms to management, investors and others in financial circles, by the water companies.

Relevant to this Lufthana virtue-signalling money grab as even the Australians have picked this up and its likely evolution as ridiculous to put onto customers as a separate item this morning
https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/lufthansa-green-tax-airfare-ticket

Read the percentages in one of the later paragraphs and see the responsibility Lufthansa is not taking for its business whilst whining and virtue signalling.