How to avoid airline surcharges | Coffee Break Ep102 | 4-21-26

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Airline fuel surcharges are going up! We’ve recently seen Air France KLM Flying Blue and Virgin Atlantic increase surcharges on their awards and it’s looking like a trend. In this podcast episode, we’ll talk about the different ways you can avoid them.

How to avoid airline surcharges

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(01:50) – Booking with an alliance partner that doesn’t pass along surcharges

(02:03) – Air France KLM Flying Blue booked with Virgin Atlantic or Japan Airline Mileage Bank miles

Learn more about going to Europe starting on Air France or KLM Business Class using Virgin Atlantic points here

Learn more about Air France without surcharges via Japan Airline Mileage Bank miles here

(03:50) – Rove miles

Learn more about using Rove miles here 

(06:52) – Lufthansa booked through other Star Alliance partners

(07:29) – One World is tricky…

(11:26) – What can you do about high taxes coming back from the UK?

(12:33) – For travel to and from Europe, consider JetBlue’s flights booked through Qatar Avios

Learn about booking JetBlue with Qatar Avios here

(16:22) – SAS

(17:39) – Airlines that don’t charge surcharges in the first place

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Music Credit – Beach Walk by Unicorn Heads

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Grant

Hi Greg and Nick, I enjoyed listening to your coffee break episode. Is there a link for the FM261 program where I can file for my refund since you guys went over the 20 minute mark? Thank you!

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Nick Reyes

I mean, for recording in front of a live audience after taking suggestions from the crowd and freestyling a coffee break, we came in awfully close to the mark!

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Grant

That’s true, you both did great under those circumstances. I let this overage slide this time, but next time, FM261 here I come!

PS I miss the FM To Go you guys used to do. Glad I was able to make the SF Bay Area one a few years ago 🙂

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