Originally Posted by
RichieMc
The point is the government wants to raise more money. If it taxes people who live in the UK taking direct flights from the UK to wherever, they can do this without changing passenger behaviour very much. On the other hand, by taxing connecting passengers, these passengers are far more sensitive to the change and have far more options. If you’re connecting anyway, you may as well do it for cheaper connecting in Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, etc.
In which case they could add in a smaller band for connecting traffic - say 25% of a UK passenger would pay. That's unlikely to decimate BA's connecting traffic.
Seems fairer than screwing increasing amounts of money out of UK passengers.