AirAsia scraps fuel surcharges as oil price plummets

Now if Britishairways, would stop cheating people with their fuel surcharges. $850 usd on a mileage ticket(free ticket)What crooks!

kdt...is that true? You have to pay fuel charges on free tickets? Interesting.

kdt3272:

That's why airmiles are next to useless as long as fuel surcharges are still sky high. I remember a year or two ago, BA were boasting of airfares to UK for 20,000 yen!!!! Yeah sure! I'd never even seen prices that low before fuel surcharges were introduced. Once you see surcharges drop, expect to see BA increase the basic fares.

I just looked at my air miles for a few different flights to the UK, South East Asia and China, and the fee above the air miles cost was between $25 - $50 for the various flights. I didn't look at whether this was fuel surcharges or airport taxes though.

See my post in the other thread regarding airlines keeping prices high as long as the planes remain full. Now consider Air Asia's recent crash due almost certainly to flying into a thunderstorm updraft. Even though nobody has said so, I'll bet there were a bunch of cancellations on Air Asia flights after the crash details started to get released, so Air Asia has to do something to get customers back.