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APD - Not so bad via Europe
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These amounts:
APD Charges.
Band A (0 - 2000 miles from London)
Includes: Europe, Algeria, Greenland, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Currently
Economy cabins £10 Premium cabins £20
November 2009
Economy cabins £11 Premium cabins £22
November 2010
Economy cabins £12 Premium cabins £24
will also apply when the punter buys a separate ticket to Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt or where ever and another ticket on to America or Down Under.
A family of four to OZ will pay £340 in tax in the back for a flight to Sydney. Why wouldn't they go via Europe?
Now has the chancellor shot BA in the foot?
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I think the only way to avoid it will be no hold baggage or reclaim hold baggage at euro airport and continue travel plans, and think ticket will need to be LHR-FRA then FRA-SYD for example, the UK gov needs all the tax it can get, just look at the rate of increase in these charges over the next 18 months, the APD will just increase more as time goes by.