Air ticket taxes REFUND (what they do not tell you)

ibryant

Hi,

You may already know this, but if not I hope you find it useful.

If, you buy tickets but do not fly you are entitled to a refund of the taxes on any ticket

The airlines do not tell you this when you cancel a non-refundable ticket, but they only have to pay the tax to the treasury if you fly. If, you do not fly or cancel your ticket and do not get a refund they pocket the money. This applies even to the budget airlines like Ryanair and Easyjet, although they may charge an admin fee.

For example if you had booked a £46.65 return ticket from London to Paris with Easyjet and then had to cancel you are entitled to the £25.50 taxes back. Even if it is a non-refundable ticket, as this cannot apply to the taxes. They may charge an admin fee.

Hope this saves someone some money. Good luck

Angel777

Yes i got a refunds of the taxes and charges from ba.

They really are a great airline despite charging an arm and a leg!

Altarf

ibryant wrote:

The airlines do not tell you this when you cancel a non-refundable ticket, but they only have to pay the tax to the treasury if you fly.

Correct

ibryant wrote:

For example if you had booked a £46.65 return ticket from London to Paris with Easyjet and then had to cancel you are entitled to the £25.50 taxes back.

Wrong - in this case only £5 is tax passed to the Treasury. The other £20.50 is miscellaneous costs that they have bundled in with the 'Taxes & other charges' to make the airfare seem cheap.

ibryant

Ok. In this case it may have been a poor example. However, in a similar experience flying KLM to Amsterdam I was refunded over £75 in taxes when I cancelled three tickets.

Altarf

ibryant wrote:

Ok. In this case it may have been a poor example. However, in a similar experience flying KLM to Amsterdam I was refunded over £75 in taxes when I cancelled three tickets.

It is impossible to pay £75 in taxes on three tickets from the UK to Amsterdam.

Air Passenger Duty (the only tax payable on flights) is £5 to a European destination travelling economy, £10 for non-economy seats, so the most you could have paid in UK taxes was £30.

For completeness, APD to non-European destinations is £20 economy and £40 non-economy.

trisha

I am going to cancel a one way flight from Manchester to Tenerife with Jet2

The taxes for two were £32
I phoned the call centre (India of course !) frome what I understood from the man's broken English, I have to email them with my ref number stating that I want to cancel, so should I ask for a refund of the taxes when I do ?

He kept trying to persuade me not to cancel by saying I could have a name change up to three days before, I wonder if he was inadvertantly saying that I could sell my tickets to another person ?

Sam_Bee

Altarf wrote:

It is impossible to pay £75 in taxes on three tickets from the UK to Amsterdam.

Air Passenger Duty (the only tax payable on flights) is £5 to a European destination travelling economy, £10 for non-economy seats, so the most you could have paid in UK taxes was £30.

For completeness, APD to non-European destinations is £20 economy and £40 non-economy.

For those who don't care about the breakdown of the extras they are paying (and why should they if at the end of the day you have to pay them?), you are being a pedant.

APD is compulsory and refundable if you cancel. Why should anyone care if they are technically 'taxes' or 'charges' they only care what they get back.

The real scandal is Ryanair & the low cost airlines charging a refund fee equivilant to your taxes (and charges for the pedants) so they receive your money, your money that was supposed to pay the government, your money that was supposed to pay the airport, and the money they get from the passenger replacing you. Scandalous.

Altarf

Sam_Bee wrote:

For those who don't care about the breakdown of the extras they are paying (and why should they if at the end of the day you have to pay them?), you are being a pedant.

And if you don't realise why it is important to know the breakdown then you are stupid.

isayoldchap

Altarf wrote:

And if you don't realise why it is important to know the breakdown then you are stupid.

Wow!Hope you two don't meet up on an aircraft one day.:eek: :mad:

Doublespresso

Hey, take it easy guys, we are meant to help each other against the real baddies, the Airlines and their dodgy practices.

Let's cool down.

Sam_Bee

Altarf wrote:

And if you don't realise why it is important to know the breakdown then you are stupid.

.........:rotfl: