The Hidden Tax Sale!
As always, there are low fares on many airlines, but the listed fares are now distorted because the U.S. Department of Transportation is forcing us to HIDE all of their taxes and fees in the fares we see, including sale fare advertisements.
Taxes and fees can be different by destination, by country, based on whether you are flying into or out of an airport, and so on. You get the point – it makes it too difficult for us to provide the list of fares. In fact, by the time we could figure out how to calculate that, you'd be done with your vacation already.
So, instead of providing low sale fares in a transparent format, airlines are going to have to just provide you with the routes and dates.
Prior to this new regulation, they have NEVER sold a ticket without a customer knowing what their full price would be – they always showed the fare and the taxes and fees, but separately to ensure transparency. Now the government wants to combine those.
You tell us - which do you think is more transparent? We think this lack of transparency that is being forced by our government is an outrage, and we encourage you to let your elected officials know that we should reduce regulation that burdens the American people.
