Airlines call for Air Passenger Duty to be scrapped

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In a rare show of unity, British Airways, Easyjet, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic are together calling on the UK government to scrap Air Passenger Duty (APD).

The tax, which was introduced in 1994, is applied to almost every ticket on a flight originating in the UK, and has risen sharply from between £5 and £40 per ticket to between £24 and £170.