Re: Coalition Transport - "full" policy [longish]

In message <354e4958-e4af-46a9-896b-c5d99ea6cb89@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, at 01:12:02 on Fri, 21 May 2010, Neil Williams <pacer142@xxxxxxxxx> remarked:
• We will replace Air Passenger Duty with a per-flight duty.

Good to all three of those, in my view. But can you see Ryanair
bringing in a "proportional flight duty calculation fee"? :)

The low cost airlines have fairly consistent aircraft type (the per-plane duty will surely be more for a bigger or older plane) and loadings, so should be reasonably easy to invent a "flat fee" charge to pass on.

Airlines with diverse equipment and often poor loadings (eg KLM from Brum) will struggle to have a flat fee that makes sense.
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Roland Perry
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