{"id":19183,"date":"2009-02-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/02\/11\/in-order-to-serve-you-bett-wait-it-really-is-better-fuel-surcharges\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T10:00:01","slug":"in-order-to-serve-you-bett-wait-it-really-is-better-fuel-surcharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090211-01\/?p=19183","title":{"rendered":"In order to serve you bett&#8230; wait, it really is better: Fuel surcharges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, the phrase <i>In order to serve you better<\/i> means that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/01\/11\/7065024.aspx\"> you&#8217;re<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/04\/04\/2021921.aspx\"> about to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/06\/20\/3414589.aspx\"> get screwed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Imagine my surprise to discover that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.united.ca\/local\/english\/PB\/deals\/no_fuel_surcharge.html\"> United has stopped imposing a fuel surcharge<\/a> for flights between Canada and the United States due to the decrease in fuel prices. But wait, that&#8217;s only for flights between Canada and the United States. Flights within the United States appear to have the surcharge in place as usual. <\/p>\n<p> Hey, I&#8217;ve got an idea. How about getting rid of this surcharge nonsense and just raise the price of the ticket? Naw, that&#8217;s just crazy talk. <\/p>\n<p> I can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3114\/3141139302_45d5b3b0a6_o.jpg\"> <i>Calvin &amp; Hobbes<\/i> cartoon already<\/a>. &#8220;Lemonade, 5&cent; a glass (plus 25&cent; water surcharge, 50&cent; sugar surcharge, 75&cent; rent reclamation fee, $1.50 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secondary_characters_in_Calvin_and_Hobbes#Moe\"> Moe<\/a> appeasement fee, 25&cent; capital depreciation fee&#8230;)&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, the phrase In order to serve you better means that you&#8217;re about to get screwed. Imagine my surprise to discover that United has stopped imposing a fuel surcharge for flights between Canada and the United States due to the decrease in fuel prices. But wait, that&#8217;s only for flights between Canada and the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-19183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Normally, the phrase In order to serve you better means that you&#8217;re about to get screwed. Imagine my surprise to discover that United has stopped imposing a fuel surcharge for flights between Canada and the United States due to the decrease in fuel prices. But wait, that&#8217;s only for flights between Canada and the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}