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Post by spanisheyes on Apr 9, 2009 12:25:17 GMT 2
No sign of a reply yet....... not that i was expecting a quick response ;D
They are probably still deciphering my letter ;D
Anyway will let you all know of the outcome.
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Post by artisans on Apr 10, 2009 10:11:05 GMT 2
Airline Passenger Duty (APD) has now been scrapped in both Holland and Belgium in recognition of the damage it will do to their aviation industries. Amsterdam's Schipol airport is also reducing airport charges by 9% from this month to support the move to keep people flying. Liverpool Airport is the latest organisation to call on the UK government to follow suit.
Tui Travel's chief executive said that “The whole issue of raising taxes under the guise of environmental issues is wrong.” One must applaud his commitment to fair play, and yet his company continue to avoid paying refunds to passengers to Corfu and other Greek destinations following Greece's move to reduce costs.
Steve
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Post by lisydaly on Apr 10, 2009 10:38:12 GMT 2
We did get a reply, the day after asking the question. The answer was that as tour operators/airlines absorb any price increases after the booking is confirmed, and do not pass them onto the customer, it works the same way for the tourist - any alteration to the agreed price is not passed on, so no refunds. So - you pay the exact sum you have contracted to pay - no ups, no downs. We will all be out of luck if the price of fuel drops through the floor then - we must pay the agreed price, albeit a price agreed weeks or months prior to the event.
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Post by davelinda on Apr 10, 2009 11:00:14 GMT 2
Swings & Roundabouts as they say.
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Post by artisans on Apr 10, 2009 11:50:24 GMT 2
Hi lisydaly - the answer you have been given is not actually the full story. As yet, Airline Passenger Duty has not been reduced - that is the the proposal in the UK that is being petitioned by TTG and backed by ABTA and Liverpool Airport. What has been scrapped in Corfu is Airport Tax - a charge made, per person, by the airport or the organisation that owns it. This is with the sole intention of increasing passenger numbers to Corfu.
It gets more complicated when you start looking at the Terms & Conditions of tour organisers who usually operate under more than one name - each one having different terms. We then enter the legal minefield of 'unjust enrichment' to decide whether the tour operator is acting fairly. At the end of the day, if this is a measure to provide incentives for operators to allocate more flights, the very least we should expect is better access to Corfu and the reinstatement of some of those cancelled slots.
Steve
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Post by davelinda on Apr 10, 2009 13:27:03 GMT 2
Steve,As you say that is the least we should expect,but once we have paid it 's like getting blood out of a stone to try & get anything back.
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Post by gailie66 on Apr 10, 2009 14:45:30 GMT 2
if it takes as long as it did to get my money back after the xl debarcle last year then i won't be holding my breath on getting a refund of air passenger duty.Tour operators can and do charge what they like they make their money from all the xtras,but i'm afraid that's the price we pay if we want to go on holiday even if it is a ripp off.
Gail.
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Post by artisans on Apr 22, 2009 21:22:28 GMT 2
UK travel industry experts are furious tonight that the Chancellor and former transport minister, Alastair Darling, has failed to address the APD issue in today's budget.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2009 0:17:22 GMT 2
What do you expect. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling only want our money to fill the hole they have made with the economic disaster and the spilling of money to the banks and bankers.
They are not going to make it easier for us to go abroad because they want us to spend the money in the UK.
Well they are not getting mine.
Yeiamas, Chris
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Post by spanisheyes on Apr 23, 2009 20:21:41 GMT 2
Don't you just love it when they take ages to reply to a simple question.
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Post by artisans on Jun 2, 2009 8:10:22 GMT 2
APD: 'a poll tax of the skies' - these are the words of a BALPA (British Airline Pilots' Association) executive. He goes on to say that: “At a time when the worldwide aviation industry is suffering, the UK Chancellor is going to suffocate his very own industry.
“This could only be dreamt up in the UK. The Dutch have recently scrapped their tax on passenger flights to try to attract more business from neighbouring countries and good old Britain is happy to oblige. This is economic madness."
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Post by artisans on Jul 1, 2009 9:22:36 GMT 2
UK transport minister Paul Clark, has said the government estimated that, by 2030, the number of passengers travelling through British airports would drop by 1.5 million people as a result of APD.
1.4 million of those people are expected to disappear from short-haul flights. The government’s statement showed how the tax increases would hit poorer people, whose travels were restricted to short-haul flights thus pricing ordinary families out of flying.
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