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Aer Lingus Airport Taxes

  • 09-09-2009 10:23AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I just booked flights to London Gatwick with Aer Lingus. The flights were free and the taxes and airport charges, round trip, worked out at €42.20 (19.99 dub-gat out 22.21 gat-dub) each before handling fee which was grand. I then decided to book each leg seperately as I won't have check in baggage on the way out but will on the way back.

    The taxes and fees for the return flight suddenly dropped from €22.21 to £9.99 because it was orginating in the UK! How can they justify doing this?

    My flights worked out at €85 for two rather than €105!


Comments

  • #2
    Davidth88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Davidth88


    Thanks for pointing that out , you have just saved me about 30 euro !!

    Nice trick


  • #3
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    Airport Taxes are one of the great mysteries in life.

    For a while Ryanair used vary them depending on whether it was a free flight or a paid flight.


  • #4
    darc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭darc


    They're doing a £10 including taxes promotion in the UK. So your flight is 1p and charges are 9.99. if it wasn't a promotional deal the taxes would have been a lot higher.

    Standard taxes/charges ex gatwick are £29.70 as the uk has an added tax for departures originating in the UK - doesn't apply to return legs of flights originating out of UK.


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