Jobsagoodun
I think you miss my point at present the airline collect the tax from all passengers, but only pay to the goverment the tax paid to the airline by the passenger that actually fly. I understand that in Ryanair case this is an average of 7% of their booked load. This will of course only apply to uk departures and that might? be on 15-20m out of their 52m+ pax a year, but 7% of 15m is 1.05m at £10 a time is £10.5m which in my terms is still a fair chunk of cash for free. In simple terms the new way of charging the airline will mean this free money (its billed as tax) is lost.
Put it another way on baby or Jet2 pax numbers (and most of theirs are UK) it could be worth over a £1m a year and that might make a loss into a profit or vice versa
Last edited by Facelookbovvered; 29th Mar 2008 at 12:09.