Delta and United airlines have added more days next year that will be subject to holiday- and peak-travel airfare surcharges.
Most airlines have imposed $20 one-way surcharges on peak days near Thanksgiving and Christmas and heavy-traffic days in the spring.
Delta, which merged with Northwest, and United have upped the going rate, now charging an extra $30 for March 14, 20, 21 and 28, and April 5 and 11.
New surcharges and dates include $10 on March 7-10, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25-27 and 29; April 1-4 and 8-10; and $20 on Feb. 12.
"From now through May 28, these three airlines have as many as 41 travel days with holiday- or peak-travel airfare surcharges ranging between $10 and $50. That's a lot of days," said Tom Parsons, chief executive of Bestfares.com, a discount-travel website that monitors airfares.
A $50 one-way surcharge will be imposed by Delta/ Northwest on Feb. 8 — the day after Super Bowl XLIV in Miami — for travel from South Florida airports to most of the cities it serves, said Rick Seaney, whose FareCompare.com also tracks fares.
US Airways, which has not matched the new surcharges, plans a 5 percent surcharge for all flights beginning May 8, Parsons said. Other airlines will watch how the traveling public reacts to US Airways' higher fares. Parsons said airlines are looking for new revenue in a down economy, and the surcharges may mean higher fares next summer.
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