AAP News
Qantas to cut domestic fuel surcharges
Tuesday January 16, 2007, 2:14 pm
Qantas has announced it will reduce its fuel surcharges on all domestic flights and some international flights from January 23 - by $5.
There will be no change to surcharges on flights from Australia to Europe and the United Kingdom, and from Australia to the US, Canada, South America, South Africa and India.
The company said the surcharge on flights from Australia to Asia, the Pacific and Honolulu would be reduced from $105 to $100.
Similarly, Australian fares to New Zealand also will be reduced by $5.
All Qantas Australian and New Zealand domestic flight surcharges will be reduced from $31 to $26 while QantasLink jet services and turboprop also will receive the discount.
Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti said the reduction was linked to lower jet fuel prices.
"We reduced international surcharges in October and we have been monitoring oil prices closely since then," he said.
"With the more recent fall in the price of jet fuel, we can now extend the surcharge reduction to domestic fares, as well as make further reductions on a number of our international routes."
Mr Borghetti said Qantas would continue to monitor oil prices and refining costs.
"Despite hedging and surcharges, we are still under-recovering the cost of fuel price increases by hundreds of millions of dollars, even with the recent drop in jet fuel prices."
Qantas also will reduce its Frequent Flyer points operation for taxes, levies and charges on Australian and New Zealand Award flight by 500 points.
) , then perhaps they'll turn to QF and it's surcharges...
