P & O Fuel Surcharges

[Mancunian99]

How are P & O getting away with fuel surcharges. Iv'e read a few blogs or threads in the last day or two referring to recent surcharges. The global price of oil has fallen over 20% in the last couple of months and is still falling. Is the tactic to recover monies from discounting to the fill the ships?

[BrianI]

Fuel surcharges only apply to new bookings and presumably built into the price quoted.

There are no restrospective surcharges or at least I did not have to pay anymore in April when the oil price was higher than it is now

Brian

[kentona]

It did annoy me slightly when booking our cruise today, that we was charge £72 a person for fuel when as you say the price is falling.

[Somerset Cruiser]

It did annoy me slightly when booking our cruise today, that we was charge £72 a person for fuel when as you say the price is falling.

 

P&O (Carnival) may well have committed to buying fuel at a high price, gambling that it would go even higher. If so they have got it wrong, so far, hence the surcharge.