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Dec 7, 2006 | 2:04 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by g1ant

If you pay for your ticket before 1st of Feb but travel after 1st Feb, they WILL make you pay the extra tax.

I remember flying on the day that Airport Passenger Duty was introduced and the airline had staff going up and down the check-in queue collecting the tax.
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I also remember this, and that AA did not collect the tax but paid for it out of its own pockets for a while (months). But maybe this was an EXP benefit.