Originally Posted by
JCviggen
I'm not one to support new taxes generally, but I have to say currently flying is too cheap. Car fuel prices are taxed to hell, why should air travel - a fairly polluting business in its own right - be exempt?
Have you actually looked at the taxes on an airline ticket? For example, you can buy a JFK-LHR roundtrip on VS for US$701.70. $502 of that goes to VS and $199.70 goes to various US and UK taxes. That's a tax rate of 40%.