They most certainly have! I just rang AA Sydney to pay for a LONE4, and on the phone they quoted me the original price I had been given when booking it in February, but subsequently e-mailed me and apologised for not including the fuel surcharge.
"ATTACHED IS UPDATED AMERICAN AIRLINES CREDIT CARD FORM.....UNFORTUNATELY WE DID NOT INCLUDE THE ADDITIONAL FUEL SURCHARGES WHICH APPLY TO TICKETS ISSUED FROM 1MAR06.....THE ADDITIONAL IS AUD149.00"
It is not 'across the board' - transatlantic, transpacific and a couple of others, and is called "Fuel surcharge/War Insurance"... I don't want to get political or controversial here :shock: , but I think we know who we can thank for that (and they're nowhere near the Middle East).
Details on this website:
http://www.consolidatedtravel.com.au/qf/taxes.asp
BlacKnox, I share your annoyance. I certainly wasn't aware of it and am going to search around to see if perhaps I should have been. I was holding off paying due to a possible need to re-route (and so avoid paying re-routing fees), which didn't in the end happen.
If I don't see any obvious advice I'll ring Monday and plead my case, but I'm not really expecting any luck there. Guess I took a risk and lost this time. As
Dave Noble said, it's still a lot cheaper than QF. Just disappointing I didn't know it was coming in...I would gone the other way then and paid it, and risked the re-routing fee instead.
Cheers