All taxes are going to have to - and should - rise in order to deal with the terrifying state of the nation's finances. But yet another small increase in APD is just going to irritate people disproportionately; the chancellor ought to simply slap VAT on air tickets and be done with it.
Ridiculous. The UK public didn't cause the banks to fail and get bailed out by the government with tax payers money. It didn't drive the finances of the nation into the ground by over spending and the use of cinderella economics.
Why 'should' the already heavily taxed workers face more tax rises to sort out the problems of Gordon Brown. Yes there has been a recession, but our government made that of the UK far, far worse.
If you want to pay more for a ticket then good for you, but please don't presume everybody else should.