Air Tax, review of where the airlines stand. Pre bookings too.

stratford_2

Ryanair have now made an announcement on their website and it mentions that, like Jet2, they will taking money automatically from payment cards:

...UK Air Passenger Duty Rates - applicable per person for each departing flight from a UK airport which was booked before the 7th December 2006 for travel from the 1st February 2007 onwards.

£10 (GBP) per person for each UK domestic flight (£20 on a return UK domestic flight)
£10 (GBP) per person for flights from the UK to an EU/EEA airport
£40 (GBP) per person for flights from the UK to an airport outside the EU/EEA - e.g. Morocco

We greatly regret that Ryanair has no alternative, but to act as the UK Chancellor's tax collector and in accordance with Article 4.2.2 of Ryanair's General Conditions of Carriage, all affected passengers will be advised via email of the additional tax amount that will be automatically charged to the credit card or debit card used to pay for their original booking. These credit/debit card transactions will take place over the next 2 weeks .
Please Note - If your flight booking was made on or after the 7th December 2006 then the increased Air Passenger Duty tax has already been collected by Ryanair and you have nothing further to pay...

xzibit

I booked my flights with Qantas last week, does anyone know whether I will have to pay extra tax, or will it have been included in the price?

Just want to make sure, I don't want to miss paying it, and I cannot find anything about it on the Qantas website.

trisontana

xzibit wrote:

I booked my flights with Qantas last week, does anyone know whether I will have to pay extra tax, or will it have been included in the price?

Just want to make sure, I don't want to miss paying it, and I cannot find anything about it on the Qantas website.

All flights booked after December 7th will have the extra tax included automatically.

xzibit

trisontana wrote:

All flights booked after December 7th will have the extra tax included automatically.

Oh right, thanks for that, I thought that was the case, until I read something on another forum that made me think otherwise.

nylsor

stratford wrote:

Ryanair have now made an announcement on their website and it mentions that, like Jet2, they will taking money automatically from payment cards:

...UK Air Passenger Duty Rates - applicable per person for each departing flight from a UK airport which was booked before the 7th December 2006 for travel from the 1st February 2007 onwards.

£10 (GBP) per person for each UK domestic flight (£20 on a return UK domestic flight)
£10 (GBP) per person for flights from the UK to an EU/EEA airport
£40 (GBP) per person for flights from the UK to an airport outside the EU/EEA - e.g. Morocco

We greatly regret that Ryanair has no alternative, but to act as the UK Chancellor's tax collector and in accordance with Article 4.2.2 of Ryanair's General Conditions of Carriage, all affected passengers will be advised via email of the additional tax amount that will be automatically charged to the credit card or debit card used to pay for their original booking. These credit/debit card transactions will take place over the next 2 weeks .
Please Note - If your flight booking was made on or after the 7th December 2006 then the increased Air Passenger Duty tax has already been collected by Ryanair and you have nothing further to pay...

Is the above a mistake? Why has Ryanair doubled the amount of tax to be paid on flights from UK to EU destinations? The tax is £5.00 pp - I paid two lots to Easyjet yesterday - £10 total (2 passengers) for each return flight - a total of £20.00.

carol_a_3

That's what I thought. Surely the original £5 was paid on booking and this is an INCREASE of £5 to £10 so making a £10 return extra payment required for an internal UK flight. I'm confusing myself now!

stratford_2

nylsor wrote:

Is the above a mistake? Why has Ryanair doubled the amount of tax to be paid on flights from UK to EU destinations? The tax is £5.00 pp - I paid two lots to Easyjet yesterday - £10 total (2 passengers) for each return flight - a total of £20.00.

I think it's just very badly worded - it's stating the new level of tax per flights, rather than the additional amount they intend to collect.

tobago22

I paid Ryanair for flights with a credit card I have now cancelled-what happens now?

Alfie_E

tobago22 wrote:

I paid Ryanair for flights with a credit card I have now cancelled-what happens now?

Given the above flatly contradicts what Mr O’Leary initially announced in television interview, I would suspect that it'll depend on his whim, at the time Ryanair try to process the card. If the card transaction fails, it could be anything between automatically cancelling the flight to writing you another email telling you to pay.

It’s really impossible to say whether it’s better to just wait and see or to try to contract Ryanair beforehand. I can already imagine the excuse they’d come up with, if they did just immediately cancel flights – “the cancelling of your card gave us security concerns.” You might like to look at the Contact Ryanair page at the Ryanair Campaign website.

Another possibility is that these airlines try to force the transactions through as what are called “continuous payment authority” (CPA). If a card is cancelled for any reason and the card issuer issues you with a replacement card, the issuer normally tells card network – Visa or Mastercard – the new card number. Then, when a card network receives a CPA transaction using the old card number, it will automatically be converted into a transaction using the new card number. Clearly, if the airlines are able to perform CPA transactions and they do so, they’d be abusing the system even more, and so taking even more of a risk.

FL

Noz wrote:

I got an email from Flybe asking me for payment sent on 10th Jan

I will have to contact them directly. Maybe I deleted the email. We are flying over Easter and I would hate to miss out.