France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by magduf on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:03PM (#20396558)

They're probably trying to make sure they don't charge so much that flying out of France becomes more expensive than some nearby city in a bordering country. But even so, these taxes are very, very low. Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying 10 Euros on a flight if I knew it was helping rail systems. It's cheaper than the stupid "convenience fee" that I have to pay for concert tickets.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:08PM (#20397174)

Convenience fees are just immoral.

I wonder if this means flying out of the French side of Geneva airport would incur the fee while the Swiss side would not?

(Edit, it seems like the French side no longer exists after Switzerland entered the Schengen).

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by magduf on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:49AM (#20402477)

I wonder: does Ticketmaster not make any profit at all on the ticket sale itself (does all that go to the act), and is the "convenience fee" actually their profit? Or is there profit built into the ticket price itself, and the convenience fee just additional profit?

If it's the former, it's still lousy because they're advertising lower prices than what the actual cost is.

But even so, it's still not much different from retail stores charging sales tax. Personally, I think it should be illegal to charge sales tax after-the-fact. The price advertised should be the price you pay, period. In Europe, this is exactly how it is: whatever price you see advertised is what you pay, and that's all. There's taxes (15% VAT I think, so not trivial), but they're built into the price, and they're not allowed to advertise the pre-tax price. This is exactly how it should be.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:17PM (#20408582)

The convenience fee is backdoor extra money for the event provider (eg band), they split the money with ticket master. Ticket master plays the bad guy (everyone can hate them since they are a monopoly) so the band doesn’t look evil themselves.

Convenience fees are basically dark business method patterns.

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