Quite big increase , I will buy before for later flights, I wonder other airlines will follow
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Cathay Pacific increased their fuel surcharge on April 1. I made sure to book a flight I had already planned before then.
Guy
This is why I booked my trip for the summer a few days ago. Suggest others do the same asap.
It will be just number crunching. Increase fuel surcharges decrease other items. But prices only gonna go up. With current fuel prices anything below 35k ntd for a Europe return must be unprofitable. Used to be possible to pay half before the war. Air China still has cheap connections if you book at least 5-6 weeks ahead.
Gulf airlines still cheap but you are likely to get the ticket refunded… would maybe risk it for summer holidays but no earlier with them
I have read this three times, and I still can’t understand your point.
This means changing in Beijing, right? Of course Air China has an advantage over some other companies as they can still fly over Russian aerospace.
Guy
It doesn’t really change the price at all - price is all demand vs supply and supply get’s determined by the marginal costs to run a profit on the plane before deciding to ground it. No matter what they claim as fuel surcharge - it will only change the calculation shown to you on the ticket but not the actual price.
So whatever they claim on fuel surcharge - it won’t actually change prices - except a bare minimum price that you cannot book right now anyhow.
And yeah - Air China can undercut due to shorter distance by flying via Russian airspace. Change in Shanghai or Beijing and some more Chinese airports.
Eva Air tends to just go 20% over Air China if they have loads of spaces left on a similar connection saving some time. They surely monitor other non gulf airlines and just go 20% approx over except when running promotions.