Originally Posted by
ESpen36
Question: is the luxury tax collected when passengers are just transiting through LHR from somewhere else (i.e. MAD-LHR-JFK traveling in F)? If not, how long can one stop over at LHR before the tax will be collected? 24 hours?
As a general rule, yes: 24 hours as long as:
a) your origin is outside the UK (i.e. MAD-LHR-JFK is OK, but EDI-LHR-JFK would not work) and
b) the origin is in a different country from the destination: an ORD-LHR-JFK mileage run would attract APD on the LHR-JFK segment even if there is less than 24 hours between the two flights.