Qantas Credit Card Service Fee (CCSF).
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Since July 2003 Qantas has been collecting a 1% Credit Card Service Fee (CCSF) on credit and charge card transactions for all domestic tickets and for international net fare tickets to partially offset the cost of merchant fees charged to the airline.
Effective 24 May 2006, Qantas will change the way it charges the CCSF introducing a Flat Fee methodology collected through a CCSF YR tax code. The CCSF change will apply to domestic fares, international net fares and is extended to include international published fares. Collection of the CCSF through a Flat Fee utilising the YR tax code will more simply and transparently disclose the CCSF incurred by the customer.
Domestic AU (incl. GST) $4.40
Trans Tasman & Dom NZ $4.40
International $12.00
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Here they go again trying to pass off a fee as a tax. Note the use of the term "CSSF YR tax code". How can they call it a tax? Which government imposed this fee? Its not a tax, its a fee. So Qantas, please call it a fee and not try to imply its a tax and hide it in with the other fees and taxes.
And I suppose the $4.40 or $12.00 YR fee will also be added to award tickets (along with fuel fines, airport fees and charges and legitimate government taxes) since we have to provide a credit card to pay all the other fees and charges!
The fee used to be 1%. So that means that any domestic airfare less than $440 is now going to be paying an effective rate of more than 1%. And of course now that we only have one-way fares, and this fee applies to the fare and not the ticket, I assume they will collect one YR fee for each sector!
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Collection of the CCSF through a Flat Fee utilising the YR tax code will more simply and transparently disclose the CCSF incurred by the customer.
Yeah, right Qantas. Pull the other one - it plays Jingle Bells.
(along with fuel fines, airport fees and charges and legitimate government taxes)
What are are going to see (for domestic fares) is the continual rise of the number of tickets where the fees/fines/tax et al are greater than the actual base fare.
Take the current red edeal for BNE/SYD:
Fare..............$34.00
Fees/Taxes....$47.14....(soon to be $51.54 with CCSF)
Ok, they are on sale, so perhaps not the best example - but you get my drift.
.. and don't forget the fee for Geoff's retirement
And I suppose the $4.40 or $12.00 YR fee will also be added to award tickets....
You have a crystal ball somewhere in front of you? :roll:
It won't be long before you will see a red edeal for BNE/SYD:
Fare..................$ 1.00
Fees/Taxes....$101.14....
No one is getting in the way to stop them.
Geoff does not need a retirement fund. His once a year bonus, for keeping Qantas in business, is more than enough to fund the retirement of at least 20 people every year.
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Originally Posted by JohnK
You took the words right out of my mouth....
Don't laugh, some merchants already include a surcharge for paying by BPay.
And last week Commonwealth Bank removed their 50c fee for scheduling a BPay payment on a credit card. So that is a positive move at least. When was the last time airlines decreased their fees, charges, levies, surcharges, fines, incentives, inducements, etc?
...I would never pay via Bpay for an airline ticket. Less protection in the case of major issues, and no insurance for the trip via the CC company. ...
Never is a strong word.
First consideration should be whether your credit card gives you travel insurance. If it does, and you have no other travel insurance, then it is likely that the credit card surcharge would be less than buying travel insurance.
If you credit card does not provide travel insurance or if you already have travel insurance, then you need to weigh up the extra costs of paying by credit card versus the very small risk of airline bankruptcy. It is likely that the risk of airline bankruptcy is less than the credit card surcharge. Then you need to weigh up the value of the credit card points that you would earn.
If the travel insurance is not relevant, then it really comes down to your risk adversity.
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