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EsherFlyer Oct 29, 2008 10:06 am

Chart of typical taxes
 
Can anyone point me towards a chart of taxes and duties that are typically levied for each destination region? I'd like to add an approximate charge for each region/destination to a little spreadsheet I've built to help me work out how I might burn my current mile stash.

The £72.10 taxes on a miles only redemption on the bmi site correlates nicely with what ITA say for the same route on a paid for flight:

Tax: United Kingdom Air Passengers Duty £10.00
Tax: United Kingdom Passenger Service Charge £19.70
Tax: BD YQ surcharge £37.00
Tax: Spanish Airport Services Charge €5.10
Tax: Spanish Security Tax €1.61

But I don't really want to have to do this for heaps of destinations :eek:.

Doesn't have to be massively accurate, and if the UK taxes + BD charge is the dominant part of most of them then I'll perhaps just add that if they are known quantities.

TIA

FlyingOnceMore Oct 29, 2008 10:14 am


Originally Posted by EsherFlyer (Post 10595998)
But I don't really want to have to do this for heaps of destinations :eek:.

We all have to do it.

Every country &/or airline has different charges. End on End charges are also different to those applicable for transit etc. Stopover less than 24 hours might incur taxes, might not. The combinations are endless.

Sorry, you'll have to become best buds with ITA; and while it's an excellent resource, it's not always right either.

Jetstreamer Oct 29, 2008 10:25 am

Fuel surcharge plays a big part as well as this varies by airline AND route. I think there are too many variables to do what you suggest with any degree of accuracy.

It is more useful to know which airlines have lower fuel surcharges than other taxes as this will almost always be the biggest proportion of the "taxes" you are charged on a redemption.


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