ryanair, etc. - how much for taxes?
 

For cheap tickets on airlines like RyanAir, VolareWeb, etc., what should I expect to add to their prices for taxes?

When I flew to Rome from London last Feb. the RT price before taxes 9 GBP- with tax and CC charge 38 GBP.

we flew on Ryanair, in September. We flew from London Stansted, to Palermo, Sicily. the price of the ticket DOUBLED with taxes added.

The taxes on a Ryanair ticket can look high, but I think it's mainly because the base ticket price is so cheap. If you start out at 7 Euros for the base price and end up at 35 Euros, that is a 5-fold increase, but still a really cheap flight anyway you look at it.

i flew volare from paris to venice and before taxes it was 29.99 but after tax it was about 69.

WillTravel is right. Even after taxes are added you still have a cheap flight. The money I saved by mentioning Rick Steves' name at my hotel in Rome covered my flight and the train to Stansted.

my upcoming flight on ryan from london (stansted) to frankfurt (hahn) is 11.98 pounds for the flight and 21.76 pounds for the taxes, etc....that's about $65 total....so fees etc are more than the actual flight

forgot to add that the above flight is round trip in december

You can't generalise. You don't need to. And this isn't the question you should be asking anyway

It's not just taxes. Ryanair in particular invests as much creativity in inventing phoney fees that crop up at the end of the transaction as Michaelangelo put into the Sistine Chapel. You want to know ALL the add-ons

Are the people telling you taxes "doubled" their cost talking about those €0.99 specials or about a full monty £150 London-Paris flight?

The tax element varies by departure country, by destination (British departure taxes, for example, are different for EU and non-EU countries - but for the purpose of this tax Geneva and Basle are regarded as in the EU, while Zurich isn't) and as far as I can tell, by the phases of the moon. Other add-ons are there at the whim of the company concerned

The only solution is to continue your transaction to the final, final point. Then abort if, when they finally tell you the real price, it turns out to be more than BA or Lufthansa are charging up front.

Incidentally, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has ever discovered fees added to their card bill that weren't declared by the cheapo airline before thye final "I confirm" button. These guys are sneaky, but not dishonest

If you do a simulation booking on Ryanair's website, you will know the exact amount of the taxes. They are different from airport to airport.