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June 12, 2010 5:07 pm
Welcome to Regulation Room, Stone and thanks for sharing your opinion?
Is the suggestion regarding typeface for pricing a suggestion for airline’s own sales of tickets or does this include all sales whether by airlines, travel agents, or other resellers?
What do others think?
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The DOT should require posting of occupancy based rates similarly to the posting of one way fares.
The purchase price quoted should be the purchase price. The idea that a consumer could purchase a product and weeks or months later after vacation time has been booked at work and other plans made, the price could be increased is absolutely wrong.
The only additions to an airfare should be government mandated taxes and fees.
“Surcharges” should not be allowed in any case. Fuel, for example, is part of the airline’s basic cost. It should not be an add on to a fare, but part of it.
If an airline wants to charge more on a certain day, the base fare should include that charge. It should never be added on.
And the proposed rule that the total fare be shown is the only appropriate way to avoid deceptive practices. If an airline wishes to inform a customer about the cost of taxes, is should be allowed to list the base fare before taxes in no greater than 1/2 the typeface of the total fare along with the total fare.
All fees should be shown on the initial screen showing a price or in any ad showing a fare.
That said, I would prefer the rule to be that airlines return to the standard of several years ago. Any flight to, from or within the US includes 2 bags of up to 70lb. and a carry on in the standard 22 inch size.