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Jan 12, 2019, 12:15 am
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I am looking for suggestions on how best to use 180,000 Coop (Swedish COOP) points. Anyone here with any advice on what to do with them?
One way or the other governments love to increase the costs of transportation of most useful sorts, be it high fuel taxes at the road-side gas stations, high personal automobile registration taxes, air travel taxes on tickets, higher public transit fares and so on.
If the air travel tax becomes high enough, CPH may gain even more business at the expense of MMX.
If the air travel tax becomes high enough, CPH may gain even more business at the expense of MMX.
Jan 12, 2019, 12:25 am
#4712
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One way or the other governments love to increase the costs of transportation of most useful sorts, be it high fuel taxes at the road-side gas stations, high personal automobile registration taxes, air travel taxes on tickets, higher public transit fares and so on.
If the air travel tax becomes high enough, CPH may gain even more business at the expense of MMX.
Jan 12, 2019, 2:57 am
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The MP in Sweden have been looking at using the UK APD model to deal with connections and multi-cabin itineraries. I dislike the UK's APD, and even as there are a chunk of us who do what it takes to reduce the amount we pay for APD, it doesn't really shift the needle much overall even as APD collection has increased over time.
Last edited by GUWonder; Jan 12, 2019 at 3:02 am
Jan 12, 2019, 3:27 am
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How does UK departure tax work if I fly London Copenhagen Tokyo, as compared to London Tokyo? Apart from the envy effect of taxing premium economy and up quite heavily, I have never noticed the finer details. Can they actually tax the non UK departure section of a ticket? In this case the Copenhagen Tokyo section of a London Copenhagen Tokyo itinerary.
Jan 12, 2019, 4:10 am
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“Duty is charged on each passenger at the rate for the place where their journey ends (their final destination).”
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-an...passenger-duty
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-an...passenger-duty
Jan 12, 2019, 4:30 am
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“Duty is charged on each passenger at the rate for the place where their journey ends (their final destination).”
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-an...passenger-duty
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-an...passenger-duty
I can't say I am in principle opposed to taxing air travel for environmental impact If, and that is a showstopper if at the current state of things, I could be sure that the money was actually allocated to mitigating the environment impact and it was agreed at a greater scope than one country.
Jan 12, 2019, 6:36 am
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The UK APD is just about generating revenue for the government. Any notion of it being used as an environmental offset fee is a joke.
LHR-CPH-NRT has the same UK APD as LHR-NRT, as the APD for the trip is based on trip origin and destination regardless of connections involved on a ticketed itinerary. So yes, they can and do actually tax for the non-UK departure section of a ticket even as the amount isn't calculated on a per-segment basis but is calculated on a trip origin and destination regardless of the segments involved. Some UK airports have had no APD (or maybe even a reduced APD amount), and the distance band calculations for APD amounts are their own form of art.
How does UK departure tax work if I fly London Copenhagen Tokyo, as compared to London Tokyo? Apart from the envy effect of taxing premium economy and up quite heavily, I have never noticed the finer details. Can they actually tax the non UK departure section of a ticket? In this case the Copenhagen Tokyo section of a London Copenhagen Tokyo itinerary.
Jan 13, 2019, 2:02 pm
#4718
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You have to stay for more than 24 hours in Copenhagen to get the LON to CPH APD instead of the LON to TYO APD. Likewise, you avoid UK APD if you book CPH-LON-TYO, unless you stay in London for more than 24 hours.
Jan 20, 2019, 3:47 pm
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Questions about SAS EGB
Dear FT members, may I ask you guys some questions? 
My qualification period as Gold member is from May 2018 until April 2019.
The expiration date on the card is July 2019.
I’ll flying with Star Alliance airliners within Europe on May 2019.
Can I still get the Star Gold benefits until July or not?
Thank you, in advance.
My qualification period as Gold member is from May 2018 until April 2019.
The expiration date on the card is July 2019.
I’ll flying with Star Alliance airliners within Europe on May 2019.
Can I still get the Star Gold benefits until July or not?
Thank you, in advance.
Jan 20, 2019, 6:01 pm
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Dear FT members, may I ask you guys some questions?
My qualification period as Gold member is from May 2018 until April 2019.
The expiration date on the card is July 2019.
I’ll flying with Star Alliance airliners within Europe on May 2019.
Can I still get the Star Gold benefits until July or not?
Thank you, in advance.
My qualification period as Gold member is from May 2018 until April 2019.
The expiration date on the card is July 2019.
I’ll flying with Star Alliance airliners within Europe on May 2019.
Can I still get the Star Gold benefits until July or not?
Thank you, in advance.
Feb 4, 2019, 4:27 am
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Feb 4, 2019, 5:01 am
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It happens quite a lot. I think it is a combination of Plus being quite popular to the regular Nordic traveler and companies not allowing booking J but rather filling up Plus.
But 2k for r/r MUC-EWR in J is not a bad deal.
But 2k for r/r MUC-EWR in J is not a bad deal.
Feb 4, 2019, 7:45 am
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I'm looking at MUC-EWR//IAD-MUC on SK for 1750€ in Z, 1450 for kids. Great prices, cheaper than miles ticket (110k+536€ in M&M on the direct LH flights) and earns ~16k status miles on M&M... plus my nordic wife loves SAS business although she has not flown it for about 10 years.