Flybe boss calls for reform of 'scandalous' air tax
20.10.11
Flybe managing director Andrew Strong called on the Government to 'fundamentally reform' air passenger duty (APD) to make it fairer on passengers taking domestic flights. He told a meeting of over fifty MPs that aviation can help drive the recovery in regional economies, but only with government help to reform the air tax.
Speaking at a British Air Transport Association (BATA) parliamentary reception, Mr Strong said it is unfair that passengers taking domestic flights had to pay twice as much in APD as those flying abroad. He said: ‘At present, the domestic passenger suffers what has been called the ‘double-dip’ where UK domestic passengers pay APD twice and those flying abroad pay just once. This is because APD only applies to outbound flights from the UK.'
‘It is scandalous that a return passenger travelling between Glasgow and Belfast City, a flight of just 100 miles, pays double the tax of someone flying between Glasgow and Dalaman in Eastern Turkey, a flight of over 2000 miles.’
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