Date: 25/01/2007
Dear Mr Prague Tory
Booking Ref : QZQ1CG
Increase to Air Passenger Duty(APD)
The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, recently announced an increase in Air Passenger Duty (APD) on all flights leaving from UK airports. As a result tax on short-haul flights departing from the UK will rise from £5 to £10 per person (or local currency equivalent). This means for domestic flights passengers will be forced to pay £20 in tax on a return flight.
This tax increase will apply to all passengers traveling on or after 1st February 2007.
As you have booked to travel on or after 1st February 2007 and booked before 9th December 2006, we are contacting you to advise that regrettably we need to collect the additional tax from you. This tax will be debited from the card that was provided at the time of booking which will save you time, as you will not have to make the payment yourself.
Bookings that were made on or after 9th December 2006 already include the increased tax, and there is nothing further to pay.
bmibaby strongly believe that the increase in APD places an unfair burden on air travellers and the extra money collected by the Government should be reinvested into the environmental initiatives that it was created to fund.
Unfortunately this situation is beyond our control and we have no choice but to implement the tax increase. bmibaby therefore apologise for the need to recover the additional tax.
Important note: bmibaby are committed to offering long term low fares and in order to continue doing this we are unfortunately unable to absorb the additional tax that the Government have imposed on all of us.
Please note in order to travel this additional tax must be paid or it will result in you not being allowed to board your flight. Click here to view the terms and conditions. We appreciate your support at this time and acknowledge that this news will not be received favourably by you and has definitely not been supported by bmibaby. It is with great regret that we have to send this email to you.
bmibaby were one of the airlines that campaigned heavily against the rise in tax and are reluctant in having to contact you to ask for the additional tax.
Thank you for your understanding and we hope you enjoy your flight with bmibaby.
Yours sincerely,
Crawford Rix
bmibaby Managing Director
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This hit my junk mail, so I imagine many people will pitch up at the airport expecting to fly, but not having paid the amount in full. Chaos will result. More here
PS I'll stop the YC poll when somebody hits 50 votes.
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a bunch of gaffing idiots.. the lot of them..
yes it is precisely what will happen.
I thought DC's response to this was good over the weekend. To promise to actually read out in parliament all the finance bill and to have all new legislation apply from the same day.
Rather than this dog's dinner; still it reflects nicely on GB's competence.
Typical. Labour have totally messed up the running of Britain's air networks. Companies like bmibaby and easyJet, etc. prosper in spite of Labour, not because of it.
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