Gotta Love Those Canadians: WestJet Eliminates Fuel Surcharges

Sep 19th, 2008 | By Jared Blank

Yesterday, Air Canada said that they would eliminate their second bag fee and display fuel surcharges in the base fare… fantastic. Canadian discounter WestJet went one step further and announced they were eliminating fuel surcharges altogether because they said they would once the price of fuel dropped. Any bets on the first US airline to eliminate their surcharges? I’m going with Nobody Airlines.

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