Passengers in the Turks and Caicos Islands are coming to grips with the rise in air fare by domestic carrier Air Turks and Caicos who have added a five dollar increase to all their flights.
In a statement to the public, Air TCI said quote “Jet fuel, which is the type of fuel used by Air Turks and Caicos has been rising steadily for the past six months, 56 cents per gallon n the last 90 days alone.
Our business is energy dependant and our cost of doing business has steadily risen as the fuel price increases.
“An occasional increase in spike in fuel prices is to be expected and can be caused by any number of events worldwide. We can and do absorb these increases when they are temporary. However when fuel prices continue to increase for an extended period we are forced to adjust our ticket price n the form of a fuel surcharge.”
These new fees came into effect on February 14th 2011
However given the hard economic times many are calling for the airline to rethink and in some cases reduce the cost of inter-island travel. As one customer lamented “t may be better to increase the fare on international flights but flying within the TCI is really too expensive”
