Airlines reject credit card surcharge gouge claims

Original article by Shaun Drummond
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 6 : 10-Nov-15

Qantas and its Jetstar subsidiary impose a surcharge of between $A7 and $A30 on flights booked via a credit or debit card. However, Qantas’s Andrew Parker estimates that the carrier recovered only about 81 per cent of the full cost of such transactions in 2014-15. Virgin Australia has indicated that its surcharges also do not allow it recover the full cost of credit/debit card transactions. Queensland businessman Klaus Bartosch has rejected the airlines’ claims and has argued that the surcharges are too high.

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