Wow, this is big news.
http://c3dsp.westjet.com/guest/spare2.jsp
The only thing I'm unhappy about is that I booked flights to the West Caost not too long ago and the same flights are now $60 cheaper.
But I am happy with the stance that West Jet is taking with this. Air Canada will have to begrudgingly do the same thing. Though many airlines are going under due to what they claim to be higher fuel costs, I can tell all of you that the biggest problem for them was poor management and business planning, a problem that West Jet never seems to have.
An airline I won't mention that I sell a lot has a fuel surcharge per passenger that is far more than necessary. A lot of this 'fuel cost' which is seperate from the revenue portion of the ticket (base fare), has been going into slush funds and actually is revenue. Lots of it.