Flybe boss calls for review of ‘scandalous’ air tax
20.10.11
Flybe managing director Andrew Strong has called on the Government to fundamentally reform air passenger duty (APD) to make it fairer for passengers taking domestic flights. He told a meeting of more than fifty MPs that aviation can help drive the recovery in regional economies, but it needs government help to reform the air tax.
Speaking at the British Air Transport Association (BATA) annual parliamentary reception, Mr Strong said it was unfair that passengers taking domestic flights had to pay twice as much in APD as those flying abroad. He said: ‘At present, the domestic passenger suffers what has been coined the ‘double-dip’ where UK domestic flyers pay APD twice and those flying abroad pay just once. This is because APD only applies to outbound flights from the UK.'
‘It is scandalous that a return passenger travelling between Glasgow and Belfast City, some 100 miles, pays double the tax of someone flying between Glasgow and Dalaman in Eastern Turkey, a flight of more than 2000 miles.’
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