Airport tax in the UK?

[MotherBear]

Does anyone in or from the UK have any information about a type of airport tax that may have recently been introduced there? I remember reading about a carbon emissions tax but, on looking back for details, it still appears to be in the debating stage. I?m not sure if there?s yet another tax that you get clobbered with, possibly when you try to leave the UK. The amount involved, if I remember rightly was ?60 per person.

No.1 son (by order of birth, not preference, I hasten to add :wink: ) and family have booked to visit us in August (worst possible time, of course, but never mind ). He?s very concerned that, on top of the ticket price, he?ll be caught out at the airport with another hefty bill for leaving the country. I believe he booked online so I don?t know if that amount (if it exists) would have been included in the ticket price or whether he?ll come up against it at Heathrow. ?240 is a lot of money to shell out on the spot, but he says he hasn?t been able to find out anything about it.

Any info would be gratefully received.

[loopylu]

Hi MB,

I flew to Switzerland in January and France in March and I wasn't charged any extra airport tax when I flew out the UK on either occasion. I think when I was looking at flights online some companies (think the more budget airlines)explicitly added an amount to the price of the ticket due to carbon emotions, and I don't think it was as much as ?60... more like ?10-?20. However this was just part of the ticket price, and not something extra to be paid at the airport... so if he's already bought the tickets then he should be fine.

Hope that helps

[MotherBear]

Thanks Lou - hope he'll get away without any nasty shocks then.