As for the Rs 750 fuel surcharge, when airlines compete aggressively on fares, it is strange that they have all, on their own, arrived at a decision on the exact quantity on fuel surcharge.
And why is it that the surcharge on SpiceJet , Air Deccan and Jet Air flights from Ahmedabad to Delhi is the same as the surcharge on flights from Mumbai to Delhi, or, for that matter, from Chennai to Rajahmundry. Kingfisher is a different kettle of fish.
Though it does levy one or more surcharges when it chooses, it does not seem to have given a formal undertaking to do so.
Besides, its `basic fares' vary so widely, that even with surcharges, it ends up offering much the same rates as those offered by low-cost carriers; more often that one would imagine.
A search at 12.30 p.m. on January 6, 2007 for a January 11 Mumbai-Delhi, turned up a Kingfisher flight for Rs 2,975 (inclusive of all taxes/surcharges), as against an exactly identical Rs 2,949 for SpiceJet and Air Deccan, Rs 6,115 for Jet Airways.
