Tomorrow Britain Raises Airline Passenger Taxes on Depatures and Arrivals

[whatmeworry]

Duty calls as flyers count cost

 

[Moopere]

Our pollies are much the same. Instead of controlling expenditure they go for what appears to be the easy option ... increase taxes and levies. Ultimately they strangle the golden goose and sit about in the ruin of their economy wondering what happened.

I've never done it, but presumably flying into France and driving/training across the chunnel wouldn't attract the taxes?

 

[Isochronous]

Wonder if France has lower taxes - in which case I'll be using CX/AY/SQ in future.

 

[Mal]

And that tax was supposed to be an environmental levy. Hahahaha. Yeah right. Just like our carbon tax will be uses for the right purposes.

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[anat0l]

Whilst a tax is a tax and judge it as you will, what I don't get is how the global aviation industry (and particularly those in a nation which should be fairly obvious without naming it) keep pitching that taxes - whether they are an increase in 2c, $2 or $200 - are an absolute sin and can result (always, not sometimes) in catastrophic consequences for the world and economies.

Truly boggles the mind the sensationalist mentality of the industry who hypocritically doesn't really offer any other solutions for long standing issues apart from its existence. Probably why the law makers have to step in most of the time, with the accompanying talk back from the said industry, of course.


All points aside but on the same note of hypocrisy, the same nation as alluded to previously has some nerve (to put it in the nicest way) to talk about "open skies", as if they practice what they preach...


In short for all players here, to avoid the high APD in the UK:

1. The APD is only payable on outbound flights. Inbound flights are not taxed.
2. APD is not payable on transit flights that take you out of the UK.
3. Use a port close to the UK as a final destination point. Then, use either train, bus or ferry (no APD to pay), or short, cheap flight (minimised APD) to connect to the UK.

 

[Stephen65]

I just deliberately open jawed a visit to London to avoid this: MEL - LHR...(Eurostar)...BRU - MEL. Saves $570 in UK departure tax.

 

[JohnK]

Has the world gone mad?

 

[Bundy Bear]

Onemileatatime has a good blog and explains the UK tax very well.

It is not a huge increase but just another fee to think about when buying those RTW tickets especially in F.

UK raises Air Passenger Duty by 8% today.

It’s an across the board 8% increase, meaning journeys of under 2,000 miles go from £12 to £13, journeys between 2,000 and 4,000 miles go from £60 to £65, and journeys of over 6,000 miles go from £85 to £92. Those are the economy prices, while premium cabins cost double as much.


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