Oct 5, 2021, 12:40 pm
Last edit by: WineCountryUA
When one books a ticket there may be multiple taxes listed in the ticket fare. These are required governmental / airport taxes / fees. These are tracked by IATA and supplied to the airlines. List of Ticket and Airport Taxes and Fees - IATA
available for Regular Price: US $4962
These codes are regularly changed and codes get reused.
Because of the changes and reused, UA in displaying your ticket may have correctly charged you will a tax but the display software is not always up-to-date and it may display a bogus reason. The tax is likely correct but the reason is out of date
There are a couple of online resources that list some of the more common codes
https://blog.thetravelinsider.info/air-travel-taxes
A generally more accurate listing of taxes for a particular ticket may be available using ITA Matrix to look up the fare
an old copy of IATA list (2009) provides some insight into the complexity
Featuring more than 1,500 entries, the report covers descriptions and codes for Airport Taxes (AT), Passenger Charges (PC), Stamp Taxes (ST), Ticket Taxes (TT), and Miscellaneous Taxes (MT). All the information for more than 200 countries is available and easy-to-find in a user-friendly format. The Tax List also includes currency codes, and definitions of common abbreviations and special terms.
These codes are regularly changed and codes get reused.
Because of the changes and reused, UA in displaying your ticket may have correctly charged you will a tax but the display software is not always up-to-date and it may display a bogus reason. The tax is likely correct but the reason is out of date
There are a couple of online resources that list some of the more common codes
https://blog.thetravelinsider.info/air-travel-taxes
A generally more accurate listing of taxes for a particular ticket may be available using ITA Matrix to look up the fare
an old copy of IATA list (2009) provides some insight into the complexity
Odd tax item in fare list -- including an airport where I'm not going -- Why?
Jul 13, 2015, 7:31 am
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"Netherlands Airport Service Charge" on UA Award tickets?
Just wondering why my award ticket has this tax for almost 10$ when I am flying KHI-IAD via FRA..Any idea?
Jul 13, 2015, 7:33 am
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This comes up from time to time with various taxes. UA does a poor mapping the tax codes to the correct names.
If you can find the 2-letter code, you can look up what it is with IATA and it's most likely legit.
If you can find the 2-letter code, you can look up what it is with IATA and it's most likely legit.
Jul 14, 2015, 9:32 am
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I just booked a ticket xxx-FRA-SFO-SEA on a combination of *A airlines and none of the flights touch AMS.
I see a Netherlands Airport Service Charge of $10.20 on my receipt. Oddly I see all of the correct German fees and fees for my origination. I have no idea where this one is coming from. Nor do I have a clue how to find out? The receipt online and emailed doesn't provide a fare and tax breakdown using the codes.
Anyone?
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RM
I see a Netherlands Airport Service Charge of $10.20 on my receipt. Oddly I see all of the correct German fees and fees for my origination. I have no idea where this one is coming from. Nor do I have a clue how to find out? The receipt online and emailed doesn't provide a fare and tax breakdown using the codes.
Anyone?
Thanks,
RM
Aug 6, 2015, 9:43 am
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Netherlands Airport Service Charge - International is QL which should be unique today but UA is probably using some old IATA ticket codes where it was something else.
You could look at your fare construction on the saudia website to verify it's QL.
You could look at your fare construction on the saudia website to verify it's QL.
Aug 6, 2015, 4:01 pm
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No big deal. $10.20 on a $3K+ ticket doesn't amount to much. Just find it odd that it's referred to as the NL fee when I'm not in/out/transiting NL.
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Aug 6, 2015, 5:16 pm
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I think it's just an out of date database. Nothing to do with NL.
Aug 6, 2015, 10:23 pm
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You've got to wonder though, if UA can't label the tax properly on the ticket, is the tax actually getting to the correct jurisdiction that has levied it?
Do foreign governments audit UA's ticket accounting to see if their taxes are being properly collected and remitted?
Do foreign governments audit UA's ticket accounting to see if their taxes are being properly collected and remitted?
Aug 7, 2015, 6:31 am
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You've got to wonder though, if UA can't label the tax properly on the ticket, is the tax actually getting to the correct jurisdiction that has levied it?
Do foreign governments audit UA's ticket accounting to see if their taxes are being properly collected and remitted?
Do foreign governments audit UA's ticket accounting to see if their taxes are being properly collected and remitted?
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I see $1.10 of RF on a similar construction, which ITA identifies as "Serbia Cad Passenger Charge (RF)". My guess is that the mapping for the two-letter code has not been updated in the UA system in a while.