@ACE, well said. As a human being, just make one time mistake that being charged those exorbitant ra

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I wrote earlier island car rental maui hawaii that British Airways wasn t charging their high fuel surcharges ~$200 in coach and ~$400 in business/first class per long distance segment.  This is a great way to use Avios points for multi-continent trips and avoid paying the high fuel surcharges.
I was curious to see if these surcharges were charged to folks living in Brazil so I changed my address in my British Airways Executive Club account to a Brazilian address, as a test for this blog post.
As an aiside, I WAS charged fuel surcharges for British Airways flights island car rental maui hawaii from the US to Europe with a Brazilian address, so there still isn t a way to avoid paying the surcharges on British Airways flights from the US to London.
I was curious to see if American Airlines was charging fuel surcharges on British Airways flights leaving from Brazil, so I searched for a British Airways award on the American Airlines website.   American Airlines is a oneworld partner of British Airways.
You can still redeem Avios points without the exorbitant fuel surcharges from Brazil if you redeem your British Airways Avios points with a Brazilian address in your British Airways Executive Club profile. Or if you redeem American Airlines miles for British island car rental maui hawaii Airways flights.
However, there could be risks involved with changing your address to a Brazilian address if you don t actually live in Brazil, such as potentially losing island car rental maui hawaii the British island car rental maui hawaii Airways Avios points in your account or being prevented from boarding your flight in Brazil. As always, do what you are comfortable with.
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Yet again you go making half-baked island car rental maui hawaii posts abou things you only partially understand. There are two big pitfalls here for poor unsuspecting folk who are less familiar with the BAEC program island car rental maui hawaii that you neglected to mention.
Yet again YOU, USER NAME, go making half-baked posts about things you prefer to not share with the rest of your fellow travelers-except in code on Flyertalk. We know you are afraid to give up your longtime fuel surcharge scam and understand your fear.
I was always under the impression that BA could not charge fuel surcharges on flights island car rental maui hawaii departing Brazil because it was against the law in Brazil. Anyone from Brazil know the answer to this? If that is the case, did the law change?
I am troubled by a continuing series of threads that attempt to game the system. Maybe it is a generational thing, but I have to add this thread to your misguided suggestions to jump line with an elite card, or to purchase Vanilla Reloads on a Hilton Surpass Amex when the T C state that points are not awarded on reload cards (though many have still received them through drugstore purchases).
I have not been reading your blog long enough Did you also advocate buying an expensive diamond at Costco online with a Mastercard/Visa and returning island car rental maui hawaii it in store for a cash refund because they do not accept those cards at the stores?
I am not speaking for Darius, but, the gaming is not an ethical breach. We are not stealing, we are taking advantage of programs put in place by companies looking to take advantage of us by charging exorbitant rates of interest, fees, etc. Do you think they have any ethical conscience
I booked several award tickets to Brazil (I am from there and regularly fly to Sao Paulo) with AA and United with no fuel surcharge. island car rental maui hawaii Another program I booked one time with Delta was Smiles Gol Airlines but is very hard for an american as the only way I know to take advantage of smiles is through SPG at a 2:1 rate.
I have recently booked a way back at First class in American using AAdvantage island car rental maui hawaii miles and there was availability also in BA with no Fuel Surcharge, but decided to book on AA as it required fewer miles and I would have 10k miles back from my Citi AA card. Decided island car rental maui hawaii to use my avios on Cathay from New York to Vancouver.
island car rental maui hawaii And just to be clear, AA doesn t charge fuel surcharges for non-TATL itineraries anyway. The no fuel surcharge from GRU to JFK isn t because of the Brazilian law, it s because the fuel surcharge isn t there to begin with.
I share some of your concerns about the ethics of things many bloggers suggest, including this one at times. Perhaps the best thing is to take the good ideas and ignore the bad ones. I think we all draw the lines at different places and some draw them (or don t draw them) at places that involve real risks too. When you make credit card applications you can always island car rental maui hawaii choose whether or not to do it via a blogger s links, or which blogger s links to use.
@ACE, well said. As a human being, just make one time mistake that being charged those exorbitant rates of interest, fees, your several months miles/points gain will be wiped out. I am not sure whether Rob tried the Costco example island car rental maui hawaii or not, he should be able to find out, all the retailers are pretty strict on where you pay and where you will get your return even on small hundreds dollars. No points will be earned on returns.
island car rental maui hawaii One time, I gave a fictitious local address on my Resume when applying for a job in a different city. I could have cheated another job candidate of 100s of thousands of dollars over the years if I had been hired.
Keep blogging Daraius! There will always be haters out there who think credit card companies are being victimized(!!!!!) These people probably island car rental maui hawaii have the intelligence of a middle class person that votes Republican.
@Scott I believe that is still the law, but British Airways will charge fuel surcharges if you re not a resident, but American Airlines and other airlines do not charge the fee for flights leaving from Brazil even if you are not a resident of Brazil.
@Rob Markoff - I m not suggesting you change your address to avoid fuel surcharges, but am pointing out that other airlines island car rental maui hawaii don t charge fuel surcharges for flights leaving from Brazil (even if you have a US address), but British Airways does. Their is a Brazilian law which prohibits fuel surcharges, but British Airways seems to apply it only to Brazil residents unlike American Airlines or other airlines.
@AK Spot on. The wrong screenshot made it to the blog. I ve replaced it with a Rio to London flight on BA! Thanks for pointing it out. BA still charges surcharges for Rio to London flights if you have a US address, but American Airlines does not.
Darius I have 2 united guess passes that expires dec 31/12 if any one of your readers happened to be traveling anytime before island car rental maui hawaii the end of the year I d be happy to overnight them to them if they re interested i wont use them because I dont have any travel plans for rest of the year and would hate to see them go to waste. island car rental maui hawaii I know it s kinda short notice but still thought Id put it out there.
suggests that avios.com can be used to avoid the fuel surcharge as well. I did a quick test of Rio- London on BA and Avios.com island car rental maui hawaii and seems to be that BA charges the fuel surcharge, avios.com doesn t. Of course, I didn t proceed far enough on avios.com to see if there would be issues during the purchase with a non-US or US address, for example.
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