Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by presto8 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:53PM
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That international/domestic surcharge looks like an airline imposed charge. Not sure why they do it that way instead of having it in the ticket price. But the actual taxes paid on this ticket are a lot less when that surcharge isn’t included.
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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by Zak on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:50AM
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It appears that it's sometimes because it's easier in terms of internal accounting for airlines to adjust pricing that way. In other cases, some taxes may be a percentage of the fare, not the surcharge, allowing a lower all-inclusive price with the same amount of profit for the airline.