{"id":4809,"date":"2024-12-28T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2024-12-28T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T22:00:52","slug":"uk-charges-high-taxes-on-air-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/28\/uk-charges-high-taxes-on-air-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK charges high taxes on air travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This seems intended to limit flying only the elites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The study shows that, under Ms Reeves&#8217;s hikes, a family of four in economy class will be taxed \u00a3408 (or \u00a3102 per person) to fly to Disneyland Florida \u2013 a 16 per cent hike on the current rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it was introduced in 1994, APD was \u00a35 for destinations in the European Economic Area and other closely connected destinations, and \u00a310 everywhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it had risen in line with inflation, it would be \u00a310.31 and \u00a320.62 respectively as of October this year, much lower than the current categories of APD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14231069\/Labours-400-tax-hit-family-holidays-Passengers-hit-highest-levies-flights-multi-billion-pound-raid.html\">Labour&#8217;s \u00a3400 tax hit on family holidays: Passengers to be hit with highest ever levies on flights in multi-billion-pound raid | Daily Mail Online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family of 4 flying economy class will pay more than 400 British pounds in taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-travel","category-government-regulatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}