“Because airlines could then publish $3 fares from New York to London, and tack on a so-called $275 “fuel surcharge.” This is nonsense.

Yes, it is nonsense indeed. The rest of the world can do it - quote the fuel, which is up and down, separately, just like the taxes. And, if you think about it, the airlines are not keeping it, supposedly, they are passing it on to the thieves in the US oil industry. If an airlines do advertise per the above, may be they are to be compelled to put the word “ethics” back into their vain claim of being “good corporate citizens”. As most of business should.