Simviation Forum - DONT FORGET PAY YOUR EXTRA TAXES FROM 11/01/2007

Jan 13^th, 2007 at 4:03am

waspiflab Ex Member

http://easyjet.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/easyjet.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=vp...

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfp...

They have doubled!!!! and if you dont pay EasyJet by this coming Monday you will not be able to fly.

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Reply #1 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 4:47am

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We booked the flights to Edinburgh from Bristol next summer and they sent us an email telling us to pay £40 more

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Reply #2 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 5:03am

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Great

It sucks

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Reply #3 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 10:34am

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Easyjet have taken the nice appraoch, compared to jet2, who are using card details provided when you paid for a flight to take the money from you without asking for you to pay it. i think they need a lesson in PR!!!

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Reply #4 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 10:48am

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personally I dont think they should be allowed to charge you anything.
You were given a price and when you paid for your flight, you signed a contract with the carrier, stating the details including costs. By them charging you more they are breaking that contract.

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Reply #5 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 11:10am

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too true craig, BA have taken this well, they are the only airline i have heard so far that are willing to absorb the cost of this tax for people who have already booked. Everyone else is only pure profit, wheras i personnally think BA have the right idea trying to keep their passengers content.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return – Leonardo da Vinci.

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Reply #6 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 5:23pm

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Tax, tax, tax... Angry

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Reply #7 - Jan 13^th, 2007 at 8:50pm

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Do they do the same thing when the price of fuel goes up between the time you book and the time you fly? I know that type of thing wouldn't go over so well in the USA. We'd throw all the tea in to the harbor...

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Reply #8 - Jan 14^th, 2007 at 1:25pm

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More Taxes?

Takes the Easy out of Easyjet if you ask me. Undecided

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Reply #9 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 4:50am

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Craig. wrote on Jan 13^th, 2007 at 10:48am:

personally I dont think they should be allowed to charge you anything.
You were given a price and when you paid for your flight, you signed a contract with the carrier, stating the details including costs. By them charging you more they are breaking that contract.

not their fault...they are doing what is required of them by the government if yoiu dont like the taxes maybe a new government is in order.

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Reply #10 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 6:37am

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waspiflab wrote on Jan 13^th, 2007 at 4:03am:

http://easyjet.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/easyjet.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=vp...

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfp...

They have doubled!!!! and if you dont pay EasyJet by this coming Monday you will not be able to fly.

You are not paying EasyJet, you are paying the Government, EasyJet in this case are just a debt collecting agency.

There is a way around this for all passengers and carriers, is for the carriers to let you fly, you have payed and booked, a contact.
Once at check in desk, each passenger gets a personally addressed letter (they have your details already) informing them that they have to pay the local tax office the sum of 40 pounds and that the tax office has been informed of this and contact will duely be made by said office.Then if all passengers refused to pay under the argument of a contract, would President Blair and Side Show Gorden right it off, or take a couple of million people to court each on an individual basis as you are entitled to be tried by your peers.

The government is not daft. EasyJet and other carriers are liable if you do not pay. Tax is tax, as long as it is payed in the name of someone, the government does not care where the money comes from. No pay, no fly, sorry if I was in the position of the carriers I would do the same thing, that is not to say that I am happy, I also have to pay up for a flight next month......but only the tax.........I get two free flights a year from my company Grin

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Reply #11 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 6:47am

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You have till the end of the month to pay now ............... after complaints about the online system not working.

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Reply #12 - Jan 21^st, 2007 at 6:23am

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KDSM wrote on Jan 17^th, 2007 at 4:50am:

not their fault...they are doing what is required of them by the government if yoiu dont like the taxes maybe a new government is in order.

It's not their fault when the price of jet fuel goes up either. When you buy a ticket you've entered a contract to be transported from X to Y via plane for a certain price. The airline then manages all the finances to make sure it gets you from X to Y. If prices go up more than they expect (perhaps by addition of a new tax) then they eat that cost the same way they eat the cost of a jet fuel increase. It's the airline that's being taxed per passenger, not the passengers themselves. The airlines are just passing on the tax because they think they can get away with it. I know if they did that to me I'd never fly that airline again.

The airline has every right to raise its prices for the next passenger who books, but they should honor their contracts with the previously booked passengers. If you buy a ticket and sometime after the price of tickets goes down do they reimburse you the difference?

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