Travellers Will Be Winners in New Australian Pricing Laws

New legislation has come into force in Australia to combat a practice known as component pricing.  This is great news for customers.  Component pricing occurs when a travel supplier promotes a price that is not all inclusive of payments such as taxes, fuel levies, or national park entry fees to name a few.  Airlines for example, are well know for advertising extremely cheap fares that are without taxes and other charges - a practice now illegal.  All advertised prices must now include the full price of any other payments.

Travellers will see immediate benefits with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announcing that there will be no grace period for operators to change their pricing tactics. “It’s not as if it has crept up on people without notice, without warning,” says ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel.  “It has been in the offing now for some three years. It went through an extensive and I mean extensive consultation period involving … the travel industry.”

For us travellers this means just one less frustration in travelling - it has always been a bugbear of mine that airlines and other tour operators suck you in with offers of $1 flights and then add on another $100 in taxes and sundry charges, such as fuel charges or National Park entry fees.  Well done to the Australian Government - this is a very positive move for international travellers.

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