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Mar 3, 2016 | 3:59 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by twonga

Thanks both

I was hoping they wouldn't make me pay the rebooking fee to change in order to get the tax back.

I wonder if I did "25$ change dates" of the booking to the same day as my rek-lhr flight then they would be forced to change it to a "transit" automatically since it would definitely be under <24 hours.

After all my end goal is to just get the Heathrow APD back.

You have to calculate (ask AM to quote new YQ but also double check with ITA Matrix) whether the difference between APD and PSD (you have to pay PSD on LHR transit in any case) > HK$936

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