Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Plane ticket fees

You know what really grinds my gears?

Its been a while since I've gotten my gears grinded in the bad sense. Freaking terrorists really grind my gears. Have you noticed that airfares themselves aren't that expensive, but its the taxes and fees that really get you?

I'm trying to plan my trip to Spain and I was looking at a roundtrip ticket to Barcelona on Lufthansa and the fare itself is $665, which isn't bad right? Well the taxes and fees take the total price to a whopping $1068.52!! Over $400 just in fees!

What kind of fees could possibly add to almost the fare price itself? Well, lets see the breakdown shall we?

Adults
Immigration User Fee USD 7.00
Fuel and Security Surcharge USD 280.00
Passenger Facility Charge USD 4.50
Security Tax USD 2.49
Airport Security Charge USD 17.90
Transportation Tax USD 16.10
Airport Service Charge USD 7.17
APHIS User Fee USD 5.00
Customs User Fee USD 5.50
Passenger Service Charge - Intl USD 39.26
Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee USD 2.50
Transportation Tax USD 16.10
Total USD 403.52

Fuel and Security surcharge... aren't we paying for the fuel in the price of the ticket?! Security surcharge... damn terrorists!! making us use those expensive full body scans at the airport...

Is it just me, or is Transportation Tax for the amt of $16.10 being charged twice? Did they think I wouldn't notice?! Dirty rotten scoundrels!

Plus, some of these are just made up!! Wtf is a Passenger Service Charge?

Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee. Just making a long name of ambiguity doesn't mean its right to charge us for it!

So security fees themselves are
Fuel and Security Surcharge USD 280.00
Security Tax USD 2.49
Airport Security Charge USD 17.90
Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee USD 2.50

Damn terrorists. They win.

2 comments:

Jeff said...

Wow. But are the fee's coming from the govt, or is the airline/airport just making up arbitrary fees for their pockets?

Monica on February 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM said...

i think its the airline/airport. i get different fees with every different flight that i check... greedy bastards.
>:[

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