Air Passenger Duty rise: Tax increase slammed by travel companies | Mail Online
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic airline warned that the rises will make family holidays ‘unaffordable for many’.
British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has branded APD a ‘disgrace’, while organisations from Ryanair to package holiday firms to the Association of British Travel Agents have lined up to condemn it. APD was initially introduced as a ‘green tax’ on the basis it would discourage people from flying and cut carbon emissions.
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