http://www.elliott.org/blog/fuel-surcharge-outrage/ Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott's site. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.elliott.org/blog/fuel-surcharge-outrage/comment-page-1/#comment-66857 Tina Haas Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:23:17 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/fuel-surcharge-outrage/#comment-66857 I agree that the fuel surcharges are totally ridiculous. I recently booked a flight on Lufthansa for December and the fuel and security surcharge was $400! That put the cost of the ticket (about $650) at almost $1200! But in order to get 100% flight mileage, I need to purchase more expensive tickets. Flying surely has become stressful and quite expensive. I agree that the fuel surcharges are totally ridiculous. I recently booked a flight on Lufthansa for December and the fuel and security surcharge was $400! That put the cost of the ticket (about $650) at almost $1200! But in order to get 100% flight mileage, I need to purchase more expensive tickets. Flying surely has become stressful and quite expensive.

]]> http://www.elliott.org/blog/fuel-surcharge-outrage/comment-page-1/#comment-17620 Tim Sieben Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:51:50 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/fuel-surcharge-outrage/#comment-17620 I tend to agree that the fuel surcharges in this country are ridiculous. The purpose of the fuel surcharge was to provide relief to motor carriers from having to constantly file new rates due to the rapid increases or spikes in the cost of fuel. However this has been seriously abused and though there is a national fuel average, every carrier, airline, rail company, taxi, etc has a differnt fuel surcharge and keeping track of it or even understanding the difference is near impossible. Thank you for your articles, keep them coming. I will use this as part of my analysis that I am working on, related to our companies spend on fuel surcharges. I tend to agree that the fuel surcharges in this country are ridiculous.
The purpose of the fuel surcharge was to provide relief to motor carriers from having to constantly file new rates due to the rapid increases or spikes in the cost of fuel. However this has been seriously abused and though there is a national fuel average, every carrier, airline, rail company, taxi, etc has a differnt fuel surcharge and keeping track of it or even understanding the difference is near impossible. Thank you for your articles, keep them coming.
I will use this as part of my analysis that I am working on, related to our companies spend on fuel surcharges.

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