So apparently BA and Virgin fixed the fuel surcharge; but that is not fixing the price of an airfare. Surely the fuel surcharge is only a tiny part of the price of a ticket. Has the OFT nothing better to do? The only ones who will be happy are the lawyers; all others are losers.

AS A 73,000 MILE CUSTOMER LAST YEAR ON BA,
I AM SO PISSED AT BA, I WILL GO ELSE WHERE.
HOWEVER THEY ARE ALL AT IT, SO WHERE DO THE PUBLIC GO NOW ???????

I wouldnt use BA if the fare was half price, they are consistently $200-300 above Continental and Delta who both fly direct to Edinburgh from Newark and Atlanta, boycott BA and see what happens, never flown with Virgin but their prices are always higher too.
I'm coming on Delta in a months time and going home on Continental, look out Edinburgh, Stu the Trucker is coming home..!!!!

Guess who pays the fines in the long run?????

I hit post before I was finished!

Answer - the passengers!

The executives or employees who did this should be the ones that are fined, not the company. The executives/employees should be held personally responsible and should have to pay their own fines or go to jail!

Yet another 'fiddle' the aviation industry gets up to. All the whingeing airline (BA)passengers should now be thanking the US and UK Governments for presenting them with a golden opportunity to sue BA for overcharging them. Or perhaps they could convice them to pay bigger landing charges to enable BAA to employ more check in staff to reduce the queues. Or perhaps even to plough some of the enormous income they recieve from their retail activities paid by captive airline passengers in the duty free . It seems IATA have been trying to get Airports Authorities to effectively shift the balance of income from their retail activities to focus on landing charges. Now duty free is essentially tax not paid and the exchequer has to find this 'lost tax' from other sources meaning this is yet another hidden subsidy airlines/airline passengers are getting at the expense of us all.

Duty free should be stopped forthwith, it is an anomoly and is all the more insiduous when the poor occasional flier can claim on one flight a year when the expense account regular business flyer can benefit once a day.