AIr Tax

[delrich]

With this weeks increased "passenger" banded tax, could someone answer this one. If I was to book a long distance hoilday to say Australia or say India and the plane was to land at a european airport say Paris/Amsterdam etc and then after swopping to another log haul jet to continue the remainder of the journey would you be charged the extra £1.00 (for the european band) or the substantial difference for the long haul part of the trip??????
As you have broken the trip at a hub aeroport would you pay or not?????

[237SJ]

My understanding is that you do which is one of the reasons the airlines are so against the tax. If someone flies in from say USA and transfers at LHR to go onto say Dubai, they`ll get hammered for tax. Therefore, the UK will lose a lot of business in transfer traffic because people will use cheaper European airports to transfer through instead thus losing business for UK airlines. Lousy tax altogether and more grasping by the government in the name of the environment.

[ABerrant]

In regard of the aforementioned US transfers, APD is not payable by inbound international passengers who are booked to continue their journey (to an international destination) within 24 hours of their scheduled time of arrival in the UK.

For APD purposes UK originated connected flights are treated as one journey and APD is charged according to a passenger’s final destination irrespective of the number of flights that they take to reach this, provided the flights are connected. In the case of all connected flights, it is the first uplifting carrier who is liable for APD.

http://customs.hmrc.g...propertyType=document

If your question is in relation to an unscheduled stop then it would be a very passenger unfriendly airline who would charge you any extra of their liability to pay higher APD in addition to the inconvenience of interrupting your journey.

[dzug2]

But if your flights are on completely separate bookings then the lower rate applies