A question for Clark?/
Why didn’t air fares reduce when oil prices were at their lowest recently?
7DAYS Reader | October 20, 2016
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Yesterday, Sir Tim Clark was quoted as saying that the cost of air tickets will start to rise again.
Could he please explain, then, why air fares did not significantly reduce when oil prices were at their lowest recently, and also why the “carrier-imposed charges” that were introduced by Emirates during high oil prices have never been removed, and still remain to this day?
Example: An EK ticket that I bought last week: Fare: AED 970; carrier imposed charges: AED 1,180; taxes and fees: AED 550; Total AED 2,700. So the carrier-imposed charges are 22% more than the fare, and 44% of the total.
How can these huge ongoing extra charges be justified, especially when oil prices have been so low?
MGB
Dubai Marina