BA puts up fuel surcharge
British Airways will increase in its fuel surcharge on longhaul travel by £10 per sector from this Friday (April 8).
This means that World Traveller (economy) flights under nine hours will increase to £85 a sector and flights in excess of nine hours will increase to £98.
World Traveller Plus (premium economy) flights under nine hours will increase to £95 a sector and flights of more than nine hours will increase to £116.50.
Longhaul premium tickets will increase by £20 per sector.
First and Club World flights under nine hours will increase from £105 per sector to £125. On flights of more than nine hours there will be an increase from £125 per sector to £145.
The airline said there will be no increase in the fuel surcharge on domestic and shorthaul flights.
Chief financial officer Nick Swift said: “It’s with real regret that we are having to increase our longhaul fuel surcharge.
"As customers will know from the price at the petrol pumps, the cost of fuel has continued to rise significantly over the past three months.
"For us, fuel now represents over one third of our costs and particularly affects our longhaul flights.
"We are very aware of the wider economic pressures on our customers at the moment and we will bear the vast majority of the recent fuel price rise ourselves to keep this increase in surcharge to a minimum.”
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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