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Booked 2 single journeys, fees and taxes 4x what it would cost if paying
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I booked 2 UC flights LHR to BOS using miles and companion voucher and was charged £1200 in taxes.
Today I have booked 2 UC flights BOS to LHR again using miles and companion voucher and have been charged £1500 in taxes.
If I booked those same flights paying cash, the taxes are £606.88.
Does anyone know why the taxes, etc are more than 4 times. I am waiting for Virgin to explain this to me, but it does not seem right.Did you book 2 PE plus voucher & airmiles to get UC?
So two vouchers.Thats how I would if done it. Taxes London Heathrow to Boston return should be around £1k in taxes each flight?
Booking 1 ways from US to UK will always have even higher taxes than UK to US. I guess these were not booked as a return?
@dollywops, the taxes for single journeys are notoriously high – I don’t think Virgin will have any other explanation. Presumably you booked the flights by phone as AFAIK you can’t the voucher online, did you not ask the CS agent about the charges?
Like BA VS have increased their “carrier surcharges” (which aren’t taxes) massively over the past couple of years.
It’s a tax on the passenger by the airline, lol, and also a lot quicker to write!
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