Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
Jun 21st 2008, 10:06 pm
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Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
More bad news 
for those of us living here who wish to take trips to UK to see family.
Taxes reach the $1000 on TOP of the airfare.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a...770909129.html
Apologies for the cut and paste but this affects so many of us
for those of us living here who wish to take trips to UK to see family.Taxes reach the $1000 on TOP of the airfare.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a...770909129.html
Apologies for the cut and paste but this affects so many of us
Jun 22nd 2008, 1:12 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
Oh!
Jun 22nd 2008, 4:48 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
More bad news for those of us living here who wish to take trips to UK to see family.
Taxes reach the $1000 on TOP of the airfare.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a...770909129.html
Apologies for the cut and paste but this affects so many of us
for those of us living here who wish to take trips to UK to see family.Taxes reach the $1000 on TOP of the airfare.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a...770909129.html
Apologies for the cut and paste but this affects so many of us
John
Jun 22nd 2008, 5:25 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
More bad news for those of us living here who wish to take trips to UK to see family.
Taxes reach the $1000 on TOP of the airfare.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a...770909129.html
Apologies for the cut and paste but this affects so many of us
for those of us living here who wish to take trips to UK to see family.Taxes reach the $1000 on TOP of the airfare.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/a...770909129.html
Apologies for the cut and paste but this affects so many of us
Last edited by walla; Jun 22nd 2008 at 6:03 am.
Jun 22nd 2008, 6:08 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
We have booked a holiday to Thailand in December. Got a call from the Agent the other day advising us to pay the airfare element in full as we will have a $1000 surcharge added if it is not paid by Wednesday.
Jun 22nd 2008, 8:02 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
I am going home in Sept. I did the rounds and was completely flexible with my dates but still ended up paying 2300. One tip though is Finn Air - for some reason their tax is several hundred dollars less than other airlines.
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Jun 22nd 2008, 8:19 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
The taxes/levies/charges will probably be the same. It is possibly that not many people know of or use them, or their aircraft are smaller or older/or they codeshare, so their initial fare, less taxes etc, is cheaper to get business.
Jun 22nd 2008, 8:21 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
As an example, if you book a Qantas or BA flight through American Airline's website, you'll pay AA's fuel surcharges, not Qantas'. You win some, you lose some.
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Jun 22nd 2008, 9:54 am
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Re: Must read: Airfares from OZ to UK
Is it not possible to get someone to book the flights from the UK that way you may get a saving?
I'm sure this may have been asked before but I can't remember the answer
I'm sure this may have been asked before but I can't remember the answer
