Rates for commercial ground services will rise 3.9percentt, with the residential surcharge increasing to $1.15 from $1.10.
"This suggests that tobacco surcharges increased neither smoking cessation nor financial protection from high health care costs -- the primary goal of the Affordable Care Act," the authors conclude.
With prices continuing to rise, a surcharge increase is regrettably unavoidable".
LIPA's plans to move forward with surcharge increases -- though not approved -- rekindled those accusations of surreptitiousness.
American Airlines said on Tuesday that it had dropped a $6 round-trip fuel surcharge increase announced last week after other carriers did not match the increase.
The company had an overall 7 percent increase in its revenue per freight piece because of heavier average shipment weight, higher prices and fuel surcharge increases.
In an interview after the meeting, Mr. Kessel said he would try to limit surcharge increases but said it was inevitable that customers would pay more next year.
Gordian Raacke, the executive director of the Citizens Advisory Panel, a group that monitors LIPA, said the surcharge increases were merely a tactic to skirt the public oversight that would come with a full-fledged rate increase.
Although all hotel chains contacted about Mr. Hanson's research either had no comment or declined to answer specific questions, executives of travel management companies — including American Express, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Hogg Robinson Group, Egencia and Ovation Travel Management — generally agreed with his forecast of surcharge increases in 2010.
When a pile-supported embankment is high enough, the soil arching will experience three stages as the surcharge increases.
In the second stage, the soil arching is fully mobilized and experiences a "forming-failure-reforming" process as the surcharge increases.
