APD
Juan and others
Apart from the BA losses, more worrying from the Daily Mail re APD..if APD rises again reinstatement of staff travel will pale into insignificance.
No airline, no job, no staff travel anyway.
Maybe Unite should concentrate on the bigger picture...saving jobs!!
Quote from Daily Mail...
Key Tory policies have been abandoned or watered down to finance the adoption of Nick Clegg's flagship policy to raise to £10,000 the starting point at which tax is paid.
. The document confirms the Tories have capitulated to Lib Dem demands to reform and raise air passenger duty - dubbed the 'poll tax of the skies'.
The tax will be switched 'from a per-passenger to a per plane duty' with the revenue raised going directly towards paying for the increase in tax thresholds.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the change would cost taxpayers an extra £3.3billion a year, more than doubling the amount of tax paid by airline passengers as airlines will simply pass on the new duty.
The Treasury raised just £2.4billion from the levy last year. But the change would see the tax paid by a family of four travelling long-haul economy soar from £220 to £522.
Brian Wilson, the former Energy Minister who chairs the pressure group Flying Matters, condemned the 'doubling taxation on aviation'.
He said: 'This is not a victimless offence but an absolutely crazy assault on one of Britain's most important industrial sectors.'
Ed Anderson, of the Airport Operators' Association, said: 'The APD rises will hurt ordinary hard-working people by not only making it harder for them to get away on holiday, but by slowing economic recovery and threatening jobs.'