Airline warning over 'unfair' tax

NEWS ARTICLE ADDED: 18/11/2009

According to to UK based flight company Flybe UK holiday makers could face unfair passenger duty. The duty went up from £20 to £22 on 1st November 2009. Said Exeter based Flybe.

This could effect holiday makers from the south west of the country, Flybe claimed the tax rise would put routes with "marginal" returns at risk because it would wipe out any profits.

The airline said routes, such as Newquay to Edinburgh and Exeter to Glasgow and north-east England, could be at risk.

But Andrew Bell, from Friends of the Earth in Exeter, said: "We need to make air travel more expensive because the contribution towards climate change is quite severe.

This could put flights up by £1 says The Treasury, although this cost may rise again in 2010.

 

 

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