ryanair, etc. - how much for taxes?
Oct 23rd, 2004, 07:51 PM
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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.
Oct 23rd, 2004, 08:14 PM
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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
Oct 23rd, 2004, 11:07 PM
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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
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
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