Sign the Air Passenger Duty Petition
By Darren Cronian on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Well, what a weekend – what was supposed to be an interesting weekend in Malvern, ended up to be a weekend spent in bed sleeping. Its weird how these flu type viruses start – Friday afternoon I was having a few beers with friends, and a few hours later I was laid up in bed for 3 days!

Sign the Air Passenger Duty Petition

For those that are annoyed at the Air Passenger Duty increase you can use the Governments beta online petition service. All you have to do is enter your name, email address and home address, and your name will be added on to the petition.

Air Passenger Duty is due to rise on 1 February 2007 and it has been announced that Gordon Brown wants it to be backdated and to affect those who have already booked their travel. Please make sure that you tell your family and friends to visit the Travel Rants Blog and sign the petition!


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4 responses to “Sign the Air Passenger Duty Petition”

Darren Cronian | 31 January, 2007 at 3:03 am

Umm I signed the petition, and I was suppose to get an email to confirm my details, but it hasn’t arrived yet. Anyone else had this problem?

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Darren Cronian | 31 January, 2007 at 3:07 am

I’m still getting alot of emails about APD

“David Wakeford wrote:
I am flying with Ryanair on 3rd Feb on a flight booked last October. O’Leary stated last week on a television news prorgamme that everyone who is flying after 1st Feb has been notified by Ryanair that they owe more money and that anyone turning up at the airport who has not previously paid the extra tax will be turned away without refund. I have received no email from Ryanair and their website does not give me a facility for paying the extra tax. It is also impossible to contact Ryanair by email. Is this a means of Ryanair taking customers’ money and then using a loophole in their terms & conditions to refuse to transport these customers?”

Good question David. I’ve received an email, I don’t know if you have yet. I’m not a legal person, but I am sure they must be some law about taking money from a credit or debit card without any authorisation.

All of the airlines [with the exception of BA surprisingly] have dealt with this APD increase shockingly bad. Hopefully plenty of lessons will have been learnt, and I suspect this isn’t the last we hear about this APD.

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Rohan | 31 January, 2007 at 2:22 pm

I’ve completed the petition [under my real name] ;)

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Lee Harrison (owner Select World Travel) | 31 January, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Sorry that you couldn’t make Sunday, Darren. It Really went extremely well.
Have posted a little Video and some Photos on http://www.selectworld.travel
We were so busy, I had hardly any time to take the Video or Photos!!

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