Anyway, I had a chance to speak to American’s Director of Corporate Communications tonight, and have a couple of quick updates:
Is US Airways imposing fuel surcharges for award travel on most oneworld carriers?
American is not imposing fuel surcharges for award travel on carriers other than British Airways, Iberia, and Finnair. I wasn’t aware they were imposing fuel surcharges on Finnair, though that’s not of all that much concern to me, and at the same time isn’t all that surprising given that they’re part of the same transatlantic joint venture.
A lot of people that told me they were being charged fuel surcharges for travel on other carriers referenced a memo that went out last week, which it would seem a lot of agents misinterpreted. The memo apparently said in part that the rates agents were supposed to delete fuel surcharges from award tickets on many of the other oneworld carriers (since they’d automatically appear in their systems), which may have been where the confusion originated. But it’s official that when redeeming Dividend Miles for travel on oneworld, you should only be paying fuel surcharges for British Airways, Iberia, and Finnair.