Wow is this really right:
• Only Government and/or Airport taxes are refundable*.
*For partially used tickets not all the taxes may be refundable as some may be considered used e.g. if a UK departure has taken place before ticket is presented for refund, any tax relating to the UK departure will have been used.
(Info released by BA directly via email to the Travel Trade)
This means that if you purchase a non refundable ticket the Government taxes are refundable.The fuel taxes are not refunable! Why you have not flow n you have not used the aircraft and used zip fuel.
Now my question and comments are why are the fuel taxes/ surcharges not refundable? Well the only explanation that can be drawn is that airlines jumped on the band wagon when the going was rough and fuel was at an all time high by hiking the fuel surcharges and taxes. Now why I ask if the fuel has dropped price by half, why have the taxes not seen the same drop in levels? The reason for this is that the airlines need to stay in business and will charge where ever they can to make an extra buck. We will not even get started on ADM’s in this post.
Guys I am not saying give away everything for free and we all live in lala land, what I am saying is that lets cut to the core of it all, charge what you need to charge as the fare and charge what you need to as the taxes however lets be fair and transparent about it. It is a crock to charge exorbitant fuel surcharges when fuel is half the price a barrel it was a year ago. be fair and transparent.
