{"id":1221,"date":"2013-08-30T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=787"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:15:43","slug":"787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/787\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the taxes on international tickets so much more than on domestic tickets?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a nutshell the answer is fuel surcharges and more governments involved! Let’s look at two examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Dulles to Los Angeles roundtrip Sep 15-21:<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Base fare<\/td>\n$342.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Security Fee<\/td>\n$5.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
U.S. Tax<\/td>\n$25.68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Passenger Facility Charges<\/td>\n$9.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federal Segment Fees<\/td>\n$7.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n$389.80<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(taxes\/fees added about 12%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dulles to London roundtrip Sep 15-21:<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Base fare<\/td>\n$926.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Security Fee<\/td>\n$2.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
U.S. Arrival\/Departure Tax<\/td>\n$34.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Passenger Facility Charges<\/td>\n$4.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
APHIS Inspection Fee<\/td>\n$5.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
U.S. Customs User Fee<\/td>\n$5.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
U.S. Immigration User Fee<\/td>\n$7.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
British Taxes and Fees<\/td>\n$165.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Airline Fuel Surcharge<\/td>\n$458.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
U.S. Immigration User Fee<\/td>\n$7.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n$1608.00<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(taxes\/fees added about 42%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a nutshell the answer is fuel surcharges and more governments involved! Let’s look at two examples: Dulles to Los Angeles roundtrip Sep 15-21: Base fare $342.32 Security Fee $5.00 U.S. Tax $25.68 Passenger Facility Charges $9.00 Federal Segment Fees $7.80 Total $389.80 (taxes\/fees added about 12%) Dulles to London …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}