You will always have to pay some fees, taxes, and possibly
other carrier surcharges when you book an award ticket with American AAdvantage.
Most of these airlines do not make you pay fuel or
other carrier surcharges.
Not exact matches
Others include a $ 120 safety inspection fee for private for - profit car services and passenger
carriers; a broader tax on e-cigarette and vaping products at the distributor level; a
surcharge on opioid prescriptions; an incentive for vending machines to go cashless and an extension of sales tax collections on online sales.
With some of these
other Star Alliance
carriers, ANA will pass on
carrier - imposed
surcharges, which can be steep if you are flying on Austrian Airlines or Lufthansa.
Other partners will likely have
carrier - imposed
surcharges, but depending on the miles you are spending and the amount of the
surcharge it could still be a good deal.
Remember that some
other taxes, like the international transportation tax and passenger facility charge, only apply if the
carrier surcharge is also collected.
The British Airways
surcharges can be among the highest in the industry, often over $ 400, and as far as I know every partner collects them even if their rules for
other carriers generous.
This would result in hundreds in extra fuel
surcharges when compared with flying on American or
other OneWorld
carriers like AirBerlin, Aer Lingus and
others, and as such is to be avoided.
Other things are not so good: British Airways collects
carrier surcharges on all award tickets.
The sale price listed is per person and includes all taxes, fees and
other carrier imposed
surcharges.
All charges (airport,
carrier surcharge, security or
others) and credit card fees will be borne exclusively by the Victoria Client.
On the
other hand, each loyalty program usually charges different amounts to book the same flight, perhaps more miles but the chance of additional
carrier surcharges.
Some frequent flyer programs will pass on those
carrier - imposed
surcharges on award tickets while
others, such as United Airlines, do not pass on these
surcharges.
Carrier surcharges apply to award travel on some
other Flying Blue partners, as well, and can vary from about $ 30 to $ 180 each way depending on the destination and airline.
Always watch for the fuel
surcharges as British Airways adds them to their award tickets on most
other carriers as well.
While they may be cheaper than some awards you could book with
other programs, like Delta SkyMiles, they do require a
carrier surcharge of $ 50 (about $ 55) each way in coach or $ 180 (about $ 200) each way in business class.
Some
other carriers, mindful of the irony of imposing fuel
surcharges in the day and age when crude oil prices are at 15 - year low have changed the name, too.
These airline programs all collect
carrier surcharges and have
other limits that make it difficult to book complex awards, which is why they aren't worth as much as, say, miles with United Airlines or Alaska Airlines (both closer to 2 cents each).
ANA scrapped fuel
surcharges on April 1 for its own flights, but it still adds them to most
other carriers.
Aeroplan charges this
surcharge on flights operated by certain
carriers, but not
others.
Star Alliance: - For Star Alliance travel, transfer points (from 48K) to Aegean (fuel
surcharges apply except on Air Canada and United)- For Star Alliance travel with lap children, transfer points (from 64K) to Air Canada (fuel
surcharges on select
carriers)- For travel on Singapore business or first class via Frankfurt, transfer points (from 92K) to Singapore (fuel
surcharges apply)- For travel on Lufthansa or Swiss business or first class via Frankfurt, transfer points (from 84K) to Lufthansa (fuel
surcharges apply)- For
other business class travel transfer points (From 72.2 K) to Aegean (fuel
surcharges apply except on Air Canada and United)- For first class travel transfer points (From 96K) to Aegean (fuel
surcharges apply except on Air Canada and United)
Considering the fact that United does not pass on
carrier imposed fuel
surcharges for award tickets even on partners, some people prefer to book partners such as Lufthansa with United miles to avoid these charges, even though 70,000 miles is higher than
other programs would charge for that flight in business class.
On the
other hand, some
carriers, though crying foul, are complying and have announced they will levy
surcharges on flights going to and coming from Europe.
It and some
other foreign
carriers have levied «fuel
surcharges» — which accounted for the whopping $ 700 fee on those tickets to Rome.