Dave Wales

When I was listening to this having my morning cuppa yesterday the travel editor that the BBC were talking to said it depended on the airline as to whether the tax had already been charged on tickets that had already been paid for.

Long haul destinations carry an additional £40.00 per person. Substantial enough I think.

looks like if you booked flight after budjet in april you will have already paid the increase

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6895461.ece

Thanks for the reply both. Must admit, if it has to be paid then no point in getting upset but I prefer to know before I get to check in that there's a nasty surprise awaiting me. If indeed we have already paid as I booked in July, my tickets are even better value than I thought !
Strange isn't it, when you don't know what you are paying for you don't get upset,but when you do, like seeing the VAT bill on your invoice or deductions on your payslip, it makes you a bit sick !!!!

just checked out tickets to Mumbai we paid for them on March 14th are we in for a shock
in 2 weeks?
annx

Are you flying Kingfisher - we bought our tickets in Goa would we be liable to the
UK tax?

From what I have read on BBC long haul is going up from the NOW £40 to £50 next year. Will go back and check to make sure.

To be honest i should tell you what is happening in Lanzarote and what the sea is like and get the topic closed....which is exactly what you and your Welsh mates have done to my topic!
Please stay at The Gower Coast!!

I hope they put it up as much as possible....we need a better class of tourist here.

It must be nearly that much to go over the Severn Bridge now anyway!!!

OK Spaldy that's enough.

Back to topic please.

MarkJ HT Mod

Ok ive held back from saying anything about all the people who are being very rude and negative all the time but enough is enough.

Spaldy holiday truths is a great website where people share information and HELP others. Yes sometimes it is needed to share negative information we arent stupid and blinkered but there are ways of doing it. Ive found this forum very informative and im personally fed up of the way some people are coming on and just trying to stir up trouble.

"I hope they put it up as much as possible....we need a better class of tourist here"

What gives you the right to comment on anyone visiting goa? we all have different ideas about a good holiday and for some that may be just cheap beer and food, whilst others like the more cultural side there is no right or wrong.

I spoke to my travel agent we are flying with kingfisher next month, he said if you have already payed for your flight you cannot be charged any more money. But of course the £50 will be added next time you buy a long haul flight. Gel

Thanks for the information GEL ,now we have more money to spend in Goa
untill the next time
annx

Hi ann thats what i said to my OH, will have to pay £50 more on next flight to goa. Gel

Yes I would think Gel is right as having already fully paid surely that means you have entered into a contractual agreement with lets say Southall or whoever and that should be that.................unless someone knows different

Analogy being if I buy a bottle of wine this week at "X" price and next week the price increases because of additional Tax, the shopkeeper can't then phone me up and say you owe me "Y" for that bottle of wine you purchased last week. I know what I would say if he did

He can charge me more for the next one I purchase though
Fizz

I'm not sure whether it will be applied retrospectively - I certainly hope not as we paid for our tickets last May!

For those of you who wish to object, the Daily Telegraph is running a campaign to get the tax abolished. They give a variety of reasons why on their website.
If you want to read more or sign their petition go to www telegraph co uk / apd

Alan

Interesting link Alan.
I know the logic about retrospective tax that you are applying makes sense Fizzy but I can't find anything anywhere that confirms what happens either one way or the other !!! I think you will be right though.
The majority of holiday makers have presumably already booked their trips that they are intending taking in the next few months. The downside of making your own arrangements is that if you fly scheduled you have to pay up front, the upside, hopefully, will be that the tax won't be applied retrospectively. On the other hand, if you have booked a package deal do we assume this tax was already built into the cost as they knew it coming which helps explain one reason why package tours have gone up in price more than seemed reasonable. One area that is hit is the "premium" seat on charter airlines because the tax is doubled to £80 per person so I would be interested to know what is being quoted for an upgrade now, I seem to think Thompsonfly were quoting £170 per person on long haul, this would now be £250 which would certainly put me off as the standard seats are excellent anyway .

Just know this topic will either be moved or locked soon and so be it but does anyone else think the powers that be would prefer that we just stayed at home so we can just be taxed here.

I know this is going so far off topic but oh do I just get so frustrated that our working class pleasures that we slave away for all year we dream about the day we can get on that plane and just have a couple of weeks away from our miserable over taxed country.But no lets hit them even harder.

Its hard enough saving up for it and now we just have to save more.

Hope this post makes sense was a bit of a rant.

Papa

This is from the BBC - departure tax charges

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8336373.stm

Brown accused over air taxing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6175479.stm