Julio
Delete get on the bus insert when you go to buy come to think of it, if you buy a rail tecikt, they do not say It's a320 plus a310 for diesel, a35.00 for using Paddington, a34.00 for using Bristol Station and a33.00 for the City of Bristol, etc etc My point is that, too much is getting into variables that really ought to be included in the fare. If you think a34.00 (for using a credit card) is too much, is really academic that's what they charge and if you don't like it, by all means fly with someone else. Now, everything is part of the fare (see the dictionary a fare is the cost of a passenger's conveyance ) The fare is what you have paid, in the final anaylsis, when you get off at point B. The reason for seperation is/ was due to daily fluctuations in overseas exchange rates and the Railways buy fuel, Coaches buy fuel of course that should be included in the fare. Airlines say they buy it overseas, well, so does everyone else, even you and I when you come to think of it. Oh, and agents don't mark anything up. They never have done. The commission is paid by the supplier, not the client. It (Used to be!) was historically the same price for a holiday/ flight if you bought direct from the supplier or through an agent, it's just that the supplier then gave the agent a commission or pocketed the commission. You do get a mark up on consolidated, CAT45 tecikts etc which is, er, what we can get away with, basically. (And internet agents get away, very often, with a sight more than High Street agents do expedia is ruddy expensive) But as I say, most of Jo Public, at the end of the day, know naff all about (the mechanics of) travel.
Julio Delete get on the bus insert when you go to buy come to think of it, if you buy a rail tecikt, they do not say It's a320 plus a310 for diesel, a35.00 for using Paddington, a34.00 for using Bristol Station and a33.00 for the City of Bristol, etc etc My point is that, too much is getting into variables that really ought to be included in the fare. If you think a34.00 (for using a credit card) is too much, is really academic that's what they charge and if you don't like it, by all means fly with someone else. Now, everything is part of the fare (see the dictionary a fare is the cost of a passenger's conveyance ) The fare is what you have paid, in the final anaylsis, when you get off at point B. The reason for seperation is/ was due to daily fluctuations in overseas exchange rates and the Railways buy fuel, Coaches buy fuel of course that should be included in the fare. Airlines say they buy it overseas, well, so does everyone else, even you and I when you come to think of it. Oh, and agents don't mark anything up. They never have done. The commission is paid by the supplier, not the client. It (Used to be!) was historically the same price for a holiday/ flight if you bought direct from the supplier or through an agent, it's just that the supplier then gave the agent a commission or pocketed the commission. You do get a mark up on consolidated, CAT45 tecikts etc which is, er, what we can get away with, basically. (And internet agents get away, very often, with a sight more than High Street agents do expedia is ruddy expensive) But as I say, most of Jo Public, at the end of the day, know naff all about (the mechanics of) travel.