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Old Oct 1, 2016 | 6:39 am
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Originally Posted by 3Cforme
Care to show your work on that one? UK Air Passenger Duty alone (and then there are airport fees) exceeds U.S. taxes. You may have a BA thing going on.
Originally Posted by nux
Their point was that USA-LON-USA on BA is more expensive than LON-USA-LON on BA, as BA imposes a higher YQ on ex-US itineraries. APD for both would be the same, charged once.
Indeed. For example:

LHR-JFK-LHR, YQ = $324
JFK-LHR-JFK, YQ = $828... quite some difference!

The other taxes/fees are the same.
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