Aer Lingus has announced it is to scrap fuel surcharges on its long haul services from today.
The airline said the decision was taken following a decline in fuel prices over the past few months.
Aer Lingus first introduced a surcharge in May 2006, adding €35 each way to the price of flights to the US.Increases to the surcharge were introduced as recently in June and July, to reflect the sharp rise in the price of a barrel of oil, which peaked this year at $147.
However, the price of oil has more than halved since the Summer leading the airline to reduce surcharges by 30 per cent at the end of October.
Speaking this afternoon, Aer Lingus chief executive Dermot Mannion said, the decision to completely remove fuel surcharges was good news for its customers.
"Now that oil prices have fallen and stabilised over the past number of months, we believe the right thing to do is to remove these surcharges altogether," he said.
