The Qantas Newbie Questions Thread

[Hadun]

How come award seats on Qantas for US domestic flights only costs like USD$5.60 in taxes and fees compared to the hundreds and thousands that normally comes with flying on award to the ME and Europe from Aus?

 

[Cloud9]

How come award seats on Qantas for US domestic flights only costs like USD$5.60 in taxes and fees compared to the hundreds and thousands that normally comes with flying on award to the ME and Europe from Aus?

EK taxes and fees are notoriously high (with the exception of gems like the now lost 5th freedom route SIN-MEL).

Carriers will set their own charges, by and large, based on what they can get away with.

If US airlines are still as god awful to fly domestically as they were seven years ago, $5.60 seems steep, IMHO.

 

[Daver6]

If US airlines are still as god awful to fly domestically as they were seven years ago, $5.60 seems steep, IMHO.

Nope. They're not that bad. They're worse! Well just the general domestic flying experience in the US is so miserable.