Airline Charges for Tax etc

Can anybody point me to where these taxes etc are spelled out ?

To me it has all the look of Service Charges on restaurant bills ie just a
way of making it look cheaper. On a recent ticket purchase the taxes where
more than the flight. On a BA Miles quote to Lisbon the taxes were £45.


Chris

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Can anybody point me to where these taxes etc are spelled out ?

To me it has all the look of Service Charges on restaurant bills ie just a
way of making it look cheaper. On a recent ticket purchase the taxes where
more than the flight. On a BA Miles quote to Lisbon the taxes were £45.

With on-line booking sites, you can usually click on 'tax and charges' and
get a breakdown. I know I can with Ryanair and Easyjet. They are normally
made up of four elements:
Government tax - in case of flights ex-UK, it's called air passenger duty
APD and it's £5 within EU/EEA, £20 elsewhere, double for business/first
class;
Passenger Service Charge PSC - this is a fee imposed by the airport on the
airlines for each passenger carried; it varies not among airports but also
among airlines concerned, a.go. at Manchester, Ryanair and BA pass on
different PSC.
Insurance Levy - since 9/11 many airlines pass on extra insurance charge
levied by their insurers; this of course varies.
Airline Failure Insurance - this is optional, and levied by certain travel
agents/consolidators against failure of scheduled airlines, not normally
covered by travel insurance.
T&C on return leg depends on foreign tax, PSC etc, and won't be the same as
on the outbound leg.
As for trying to make fare look cheaper by not including T&C in advertising,
in UK the advertising standards authority disapprove of it and tick off
offending airlines.

Alec

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Can anybody point me to where these taxes etc are spelled out ?

To me it has all the look of Service Charges on restaurant bills ie just a
way of making it look cheaper. On a recent ticket purchase the taxes where
more than the flight. On a BA Miles quote to Lisbon the taxes were £45.

With on-line booking sites, you can usually click on 'tax and charges' and
get a breakdown. I know I can with Ryanair and Easyjet. They are normally
made up of four elements:
Government tax - in case of flights ex-UK, it's called air passenger duty
APD and it's £5 within EU/EEA, £20 elsewhere, double for business/first
class;
Passenger Service Charge PSC - this is a fee imposed by the airport on the
airlines for each passenger carried; it varies not among airports but also
among airlines concerned, a.go. at Manchester, Ryanair and BA pass on
different PSC.
Insurance Levy - since 9/11 many airlines pass on extra insurance charge
levied by their insurers; this of course varies.
Airline Failure Insurance - this is optional,

That is, it is optional whether the airline will apply it.
If they do you don't get a choice to opt out.

Personally (with Ryan air at least) this is a huge rip-off . I'd love to be
the person who is able to charge a 2 quid insurance charge to take on the
risk of having to refund 15 quid if RA cease flying (of course the fee is the
same if the fare is 1000 GBP, but with RA it never is, is it).

tim


and levied by certain travel
agents/consolidators against failure of scheduled airlines, not normally
covered by travel insurance.
T&C on return leg depends on foreign tax, PSC etc, and won't be the same as
on the outbound leg.
As for trying to make fare look cheaper by not including T&C in advertising,
in UK the advertising standards authority disapprove of it and tick off
offending airlines.

Alec