Originally Posted by
BAAZ
Are you stopping more than 24 hours in London? If so, you'll be paying the APD departure tax, which is nothing to do with fuel surcharges, and which increased in November 2010; if the increase was announced after your original booking was made, perhaps you got away with paying the pre-November rate, until the chaos intervened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Passenger_Duty
No. On the way to HAM, it is 4.5 hours, on the way back 2 hours. The breakdown of the $1,193, $440 per person was fuel surcharge.
The total difference was $480, or $240 per person. Which would make it $120 per long haul segment. I know the fuel surcharge went up, but did it go up $120 per person per longhaul segment? I didn't think so.