new airport tax

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Looks like the BBC may know more than the car rental companies then as they are not aware of any extra charges at the moment.

[blott]

I'm just wondering if it might be something to do with the UK airports John?

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Ooops - you might be right there. That will teach me to dip into the forums without reading things properly [msnsad]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by blott
I'm just wondering if it might be something to do with the UK airports John?
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[blott]

Never mind, you could be right! We'll just have to wait and see what answer Tezz gets from the BBC.

[KevinT]

John & Blott,
Let's hope if it is to do with British Airports they use some (or a lot!) of the proceeds on Teeside (International!!) Airport. Turned up there at 4am to catch a 6am Amsterdam flight en route to Orlando in April and apart from two other lost souls we had the waiting area to ourselves. No staff - no cafeteria - no magazine stall - nothing. The only thing International about it is the planes occasionally fly to other countries. All the staff/ other passengers arrived about 5:15. If they tell me to get out of bed in the middle of the night to get there 2 hours ahead of take off(which was 15 mins. late) I expect that there should be at least a skeleton staff to provide services and information. At least we have one decent airport in the N.East.

[chrisj]

Could this be what you are on about


Total taxes, fees, charges and surcharges. This includes the government imposed September 11th Security Fee of $2.50 per segment. GBP 63.40

This appeared on a friends booking form for a Virgin Flight

We never had that on ours so its a newish type thing

[tezz7628]

here we go again

heard on bbc news a charge is going to be made for abta bonding something to do with I THINK scheduled airlines not having a bond

and no i haven't heard anything back from the bbc only to say they'd forward my email to the relevant dept.

i want to tell them about this forum and the bad press they might get!!!

[tezz7628]

help please my reputation's at stake

here we are in september and i still haven't heard anything about the above tax for upgrading "british" airports?

has any body else heard anything it is supposed to start in september.

bbc never did reply to my emails

[chrisj]

Tezz

I could only find what I posted above.