APD

If you booked your VH package after 13 Decemeber it'll be on your invoice as paid. If you booked before, you DO NOT have to pay it.

VH are absorbing the cost of the APD.

I have already paid by cc £100!

Originally posted by Gavin
I sent Virgin an email on this as I was wondering if I had to pay extra for my flight in Feb, the first email back from customer services went on about the USA Advanced passenger information! However I did then get this reply

Dear Gavin,

Thank you for your recent email.

I apologise for providing incorrect information in my previous email.

I would like to inform you that the Air Passenger Duty tax (GB) has doubled for all bookings made for travel on/after 01 February 07. Since your booking was made in December 06 you are not require to pay this tax at this occasion.

Should you have any further queries regarding this matter, please speak with our Contact Centre:

UK Contact Centre
Inside the UK 0870 380 2007
Outside the UK +44 870 380 2007
Lines are available daily 7am - 10pm local time

How much you believe this I am unsure considering the first reply I had was about a totally different topic! But it seems that if you booked before Mr. Brown said it would go up you may get away without paying!

Virgin told me i wouln't have to pay at first then later in reply to an e-mail asked for payment. I booked in Sept 06 and fly in july 07 and had to pay£100

What a complete shambles this is turning out to be!!! There seem to be more questions than answers. Now here is mine, I booked 2 Y tickets but upgraded to UC using miles. When I go on the section to pay the APD it tells be I owe £80, but I only bought Y fares. Is the APD based on the class you paid for, or the class you travel in. On another note, just to save starting a new thread, most people say that they have trouble spending the 100,000+ miles in their account, well not me, I just say " find me any to dates in say, March, with a 7 day spread in between, and they always come up with something to get 2 of us in UC, ahhh, the joys of being self-employed

[HighFlyer]

Andrew,

Check Richard's post a few above yours. You *should* be paying for the class you are flying, not booked, but the APD calculator doesnt seem to be able to work this out.

I ended up paying the APD for my original flight booked (Y) pre-miles (Y-U), purely as i just cannot be bothered to go to extremes for the sake of a money off voucher. I'll wait to see if they query it at check-in.

Thanks,
Sarah

What a falderol this all seems. Seldom in the field of management have so many mistakes have been made by so few. I feel a letter to my local MP coming on.

Thanks Sarah, that was what made me ask my question (ie Richards post) still as clear as mud I am afraid. But as you say, I can't be bothered to loose sleep over losing a couple of vouchers, so will be waiting at check-in at 6:30 am to see what happens(as long as they don't keep me too long, don't want to miss one minute of the clubhouse, now THAT I will kick off about!!)

Originally posted by sailor99
What a falderol this all seems. Seldom in the field of management have so many mistakes have been made by so few. I feel a letter to my local MP coming on.

Go for it!!!!!!!!![:p]

Sorry if I'm asking the obvious here - just catching up on this thread having been away for the weekend: In Richard's post above he suggests, I think, that the system should be clever enough to know your original booking class and base the APD calculation on this? For our forthcoming DXB trip we bought two L's and used miles to upgrade to UC. For our APD we were asked to pay an extra £80 which we have duly done. So, in our case we have simply paid the flat rate for UC - the fact that we originally paid for economy tickets doesn't come in the equation. Have we done the right thing in paying out the full wack or should we have paid less?

Thanks
James

My family is flying this summer LGW-MCO returning MCO-MAN. However, we are from Northern Ireland and first flying BHD-LGW with Flybe and then, on return, flying MAN-BHD with BA. Booked 30th Dec.

The email from Virgin said nothing about APD on the Belfast legs. Do we have to pay these? Maybe we only have to pay the Flybe one, as haven't BA decided not to collect? [:?]

Ken

[Neil]

Kenneth - if you booked all your flights on 30th December then you should not have to pay any extra APD as it should have already been included in your ticket price. Only bookings made on/before 12th December are liable to pay.

Neil

[RichardMannion]

Originally posted by stoneman
Thanks Sarah, that was what made me ask my question (ie Richards post) still as clear as mud I am afraid. But as you say, I can't be bothered to loose sleep over losing a couple of vouchers, so will be waiting at check-in at 6:30 am to see what happens(as long as they don't keep me too long, don't want to miss one minute of the clubhouse, now THAT I will kick off about!!)

They gave me the vouchers anyway when I paid at check-in on Sunday. [?]

Thanks,
Richard

Has anyone any updates on the legalities of the tax??

Karen

Originally posted by sunsational
Has anyone any updates on the legalities of the tax??

Karen

I was wondering the same thing. It seems to have gone rather quiet, but the last I heard ( last week) was that a legal challenge was being mounted.

[honey lamb]

I'm bringing this up to the top again as it is slightly different from pem's Pay on the Day thread.

I've just received my credit card statement and slap bang in the middle of the transactions is a dedution Ryanair has made in respect of APD. I had forgotten they were doing this and I spent some time wondering what the Û7.93 was for then my senior moment passed.

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by honey lamb
I'm bringing this up to the top again as it is slightly different from pem's Pay on the Day thread.

I've just received my credit card statement and slap bang in the middle of the transactions is a dedution Ryanair has made in respect of APD. I had forgotten they were doing this and I spent some time wondering what the Û7.93 was for then my senior moment passed.

It is not a senior moment, it happens to us all, don't feel bad, there are many times I open up my statement and realise that at some point in the last month I managed to justify to myself that I hadn't spent that much on the AMEX and I could therefore charge away..again and again and again..only after opening the statement does it dawn on me how many times I did this.