Absolute disgrace.
I wonder what the guys who kindly provided the information previously for the British Airways crews have been told.
It's not even just for booze but for goods as well.
So I spend $27 on an item for my car in the US (100AED)
so 100+5%=105AED plus a bill of entry charge of 75AED so 180Aed an 80% charge just to bring something into the country.
The $27 item is now $49 !!!
As for booze
A bottle of wine from UK for £10 is 51AED. Now its +50% duty so 25.50AED
51+25.50=76.50AED
Not to be finished yet they then charge VAT at 5% so another 3.83 AED so now the
total is 80.32AED and not to be done with yet another 75Aed to even bring it into Dubai so a grand total of 155.33AED
The price of a 51Aed bottle of wine has gone up to 155.33AED or a 204.56% charge just to bring a bottle of wine.
This is a disgrace! Why do they think they need to charge this? Are things really that desperate here that they need the few AED from crew?