British Airways – multi-carrier reward flights – tax calculation

[Stephen]

Hello,

I’ve booked some British Airways – multi-carrier reward flights (DUB-DOH-CMB-SIN-KUL-BKK-HEL-LHR)

When searching the taxes for each flight it comes to around £400, but British Airways’ tax calculation is £770. They don’t have the breakdown of each segment, so wanted to ask if anyone knew how they calculated it?

Thanks

[ChrisBCN]

Wow, that’s a route! Have you checked that the class of travel is what you expected for each leg? You may find yourself in a higher class on a leg or two, which could explain this.

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[Stephen]

Thanks, yep, I’ve double-checked the taxes on the partner airlines directly (for cash tickets), as well as the amount British Airways would have charged in taxes/fees if I booked each segment individually.

Is there something else I’m missing?

[Lady London]

Dupe. Deleted.

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[Lady London]

Lady London wrote:

They should be able to provide the breakdown of the fare, plus detailed taxes and charges. Otherwise they’ve just made it up. Seriously though, it will be in their system down to every last penny as the fare calculation.

Ask them for it. Anything labelled YQ tyoe of charge is carrier’s own surcharge going into their pocket not any government tax and is not an airport or immigration fee etc.either. All of these are clearly identified.

About £200 is govt APD tax of UK government for longhaul flight departing the UK so this does account for a big chunk and rhe rest may well stack up as about right when you see the breakdown.

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[SamG]

I’m trying to figure out why they’ve charged me some random YQ on an LHR-Madrid Iberia flight, so I wouldn’t hold out much hope in them calculating the taxes on this correctly personally!

Try logging into Finnair and sending yourself an e-ticket receipt, may give you a breakdown to dig into

[Stephen]

Thanks everyone, after lots of back and forth, and a very helpful British Airways manager, they re-calculated the taxes down from £740.00 to £501.90

For anyone interested, the breakdown (found on Finnair website) was –

Carrier imposed surcharge(YQAC)
GBP 309.00
YQAD
GBP 6.00
YRVB
GBP 23.60
GDS distribution levy for passengers originating in India and tickets issued in India
GBP 6.00
IRELAND PASSENGER SERVICE CHARGE
GBP 6.60
Passenger Facility Charge (G4AF)
GBP 7.10
Passenger Service Charge – Qatar (PZAV)
GBP 0.40
SRI LANKA OVERSEAS SALES SURCHARGE
GBP 44.30
SRI LANKA EMBARKATION TAX COLOMBO
GBP 44.30
L7DE
GBP 5.90
AVIATION LEVY
GBP 3.40
PASSENGER SERVICE AND SECURITY CHARGE
GBP 22.20
E7AD
GBP 0.80
G8AE
GBP 0.30
SECURTIY CHARGE
GBP 4.40
AIR TRANSPORT SUPERVISION CHARGE
GBP 0.80
E7AP
GBP 0.80
G8DP
GBP 0.30
PASSENGER SERVICE CHARGE (PSC-TS) (INTERNATIONAL)
GBP 15.70
Total Taxes, fees and charges
GBP 501.90
Base fare
GBP 0.00
GRAND TOTAL
GBP 501.90

[Lady London]

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[Lady London]

Lady London wrote:

Exactly as suspected. Well done.

An actual fare in there somewhere.
£300+ trousered by BA called YQ
Very small other local charges for airports around the world.