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is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 08:49:02

Roeby
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can someone tell me why making a passenger on a flight pay more in duty is gonna help the enviroment? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6317131.stm

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	is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 09:13:30
bubblesloves69 1300cc Superstar Joined: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 Posts: 1352 Location: Next door to a pub in an interbred village, Kent United Kingdom	I know hun!! Not happy, just had an email from American Airlines saying that I'm to pay the extra Ł40 for tax on check on!! Thieving bastards grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

	is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 09:21:04
Roeby 1300cc Superstar Joined: Posts: 8884 Location: Derbyshire United Kingdom	its really out of order apparently there is only British Airways that are not passing the duty on to passengers. And seen as tho its a duty made on the airline by the goverment i think thats how they all should be.

	is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 09:22:38
Roeby 1300cc Superstar Joined: Posts: 8884 Location: Derbyshire United Kingdom	oh bubbs they seem to have gone for the higher amount too cos according to the news it should be between Ł5 and Ł40 .......... its also only supposed to be when u leave from a UK airport it would be intresting to see if they try to charge u it coming back to.

	is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 09:48:31
bubblesloves69 1300cc Superstar Joined: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 Posts: 1352 Location: Next door to a pub in an interbred village, Kent United Kingdom	ty roebs, they wanna try charging me coming back..... I'll be skint, I'm going to NY ffs rofl

	is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 10:33:44
bear 1300cc Superstar Joined: Friday, October 29, 2004 Posts: 5790 Location: cumbria United Kingdom	the thought behind the tax is to make folk take less flights abroad! aircraft pollution is apparently a serious issue as it is deposited high up in the atmosphere (where pollution is thought to cause most damage). however it seems that it is designed more to affect the holiday maker who goes wherever for 2 weeks every year rather than the business man or politician (both do their flying on other peoples money it aint coming out of thier pocket lets face it.) Any tax raised if used for environmental projects would be a good thing, but fact is the tax raised will go into the treasury and be wasted eleswhere. All governments raise tax's whilst claiming to be agaisnt high tax's.... the way they do this is to have low income tax and high indirect taxes. crooks the lot of them.

	is it me been thick or what? - Posted on 2007-02-01 10:41:00
suzuki_goddess 1300cc Superstar Joined: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Posts: 2318 Location: Jersey United Kingdom	yes i just paid up too for a flybe flight in april, my amount was only Ł5 though.

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