Etihad fuel surcharge increase 200 quid!

[69billy]

Booked and payed...£392.14p
See you guys in 6Days..

[katoeylover]

you bastard!!!

enjoy your trip

[Dieter]

So you will give a tip now Billy.....

Have fun and emjoy your trip ..... but don´t forget to share with us...

Dieter

[Road Runner]

I just paid £409 one way!

RR.

[Dieter]

620 Euro round trip-----Thai airways FRA- Bkk

[daveduke007]

(69billy @ Sep. 12 2008,19:29) Booked and payed...£392.14p
See you guys in 6Days..

Have a great time Billy

[PigDogg]

Some really good fares on Etihad.

For example, 414 pounds from London round trip.

Check them out.

Flights

[Anthony_Mustang]

With oil falling from US150 a barrell to around $60 a barrell if the Airlines don't drop the fuel surchage it will just be a rip off.

[undertaker]

etihad are filling up in abu dhabi at about ten cents a litre..so dont understand why they would have much of a fuel surcharge..

[mardhi]

Probably because Aviation fuel is Not the stuff you put in a car

Aviation fuel is a lot more expensive not least of all because it cant exactly freeze at minus 100 degrees unlike regular gasoline. Well it could freeze but you find a lot of expensive aircraft falling out of the sky ........

But seriously your sentiment is flawed - an average aircraft cannot fill up for a round trip in arab land as the cost of actually carrying that fuel (i.e burn more gas to carry that huge weight) is more expensive than just buying it at the destination for the round trip (assuming the tanks have the capacity for a round trip which is rare).

Cheers
Mardhi

[paultain]

Aviation fuel is more or less paraffin and not as expensive as petrol.

Aircraft can only fuel-up for the one way trip to the destination plus a little extra in case of congestion at the destination (ie circling around the destination waiting for a gap for landing) or a detour in case of bad weather.

Before landing, the little fuel that is left has to be ejected through outlets in the wing tips. This is in case of crashing on landing, and is illegal to land with half-full tanks.

Depending on the airlines contract with its fuel supplier, they may have jumped the gun and agreed on a high price for the rest of this year when it was 150 usd. Therefore, the price may not change until this years fuel surplus, or contract is used up. Like I say, depends on the airline and contracts, and even though oil has gone down to 55 usd, it won't take effect until next year.

Another big rip off is a lot of the airport authorities in some countries with their add-ons, such as fuel surcharge, pollution tax, and airport tax. I just checked the price of a return on Eva from Amsterdam to Bangkok for the middle of next year.

The actual ticket was 475 Euro's, but with the add-ons it came to 860 Euro's.

Klm and China was something the same. Now thats a rip-off.

Cheers
Paultain

[undertaker]

aviation fuel is actually kerosine whick is as cheap as it gets there is a chemical added to stop it freezing at verry low tempetares..

[paultain]

Paraffin is British-English for what the Yanks call Kerosene, we are talking about the same thing here undertaker

[Guest]

just booked a flight for 414 for january.

[robbo]

where from?