The Philippine Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) raised the benchmark used for airlines’ passenger fuel surcharges to “Level 19,” near the ceiling, for the April 16-30 period.
For passenger flights, the surcharge for international routes will range from 2,070.77 to 15,397.15 pesos depending on the destination, while domestic routes will be charged 627 to 1,834 pesos. That is about 2.5 times higher than the April 1-15 period.
The CAB sets fuel-surcharge benchmarks on a Level 0-20 scale. It had stayed at “Level 4” for a long period through March, but raised it to “Level 8” for April 1-15 as fuel prices surged amid conflict in the Middle East.
Price monitoring and surcharge-setting had been done on a monthly cycle, but starting in April it was temporarily shifted to a 15-day cycle to respond more quickly to price swings.
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