No a journey starting outside the UK but via the UK is not duty payable .

Of cause you are correct in that your flight with Ryanair wozit or who ever from the UK to Dublin is paid at short haul rates not disputed , however the layover period is a catch all it’s there in black and white from several readings and it states that a layover period between flights should be 24 hours if not to be subject to the long haul duty levels for the entire journey.

Now I don’t think anyone has been proceuted its pretty hard to chase a tax liability on a flight outside of the UK isn’t it .

imho the law and regulation is really a mess or diliberately poorly written. After all it was partly introduced as green tax and it’s certianly destroyed competitive domestic air travel.

And the rates are now at extautionate levels without doubt.

100% correct, the 24 hour rule applies to through tickets only, flights booked as separate legs, where you clear arrivals and re check in are and more importantly could not be covered, the 24 hour rule was introduced to stop airlines seeking advantage by a short stop over and thus evading duty, not passengers,impossible to police anyway, who is to say your plans didn’t change and Dublin or Copenhagen doesn’t give a stuff about a HMRC tax raising measure that is killing the business outside of LGW & LHR

The fact that they are more than likely charter flights flown on behalf of a tour operator is the reason that you can't find them on the Eurowings website!

I doubt anyone will know at this stage... the ink is not even dry. It has been suggested they will be kept as seperate entities. FI at GLA is sometimes their 3rd busiest UK route.

I can see WOW being phased out and being fully integrated with Icelandair in the medium to long run.

Unless I am looking at the wrong airline, WOW seam to fly lots of routes especially to the US and Canada, and EDE flights are bookable on flights including connections onward to Mid Sept. am I missing something?

No your not missing anything as your correct in your assumption but considering that this news is only just breaking I'm sure that the booking engine will still reflect the original WOW schedules.

Icelandair have already stated in it's official press release that WOW will continue to operate as a stand alone subsidiary for the forseable future although I personally think that will change at some point.

FYI it's EDI not EDE!

😊 I know it’s EDI, just keeping your on your toes 😊 Just a simple typo that I misssed... thank you 👍