More cheap transatlantic flights coming

Old Jan 15th, 2017, 09:52 AM
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More cheap transatlantic flights coming

There is no such thing as a free lunch, but if $69 sounds "too good to be true" for a trip across the atlantic pond, it may or may not come close to a free lunch. Travel reporter Ed Perkins has an article at
http://Www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/...es-really-but/
Huge "buts" for now, yet worth keeping an eye on.
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Old Jan 15th, 2017, 05:29 PM
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Since the British tax is only on outbound flights, take the train through the Chunnel and fly back home from Paris.
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Old Jan 15th, 2017, 10:50 PM
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True, except that the cheap fares the author highlights only apply to the UK-US direction, so obviously - as stated in detail in the article - the tax doesn't apply to those.
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It's not that unusual that low-cost carriers offer fares of less than the sum of taxes, fees or duties for a limited number of seats for promotional or marketing purposes.
I could fly from London to Berlin on many dates in the next weeks with Ryanair for less than what the APD should cost, i.e. less than 13 GBP.
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