Hammond is asked to halve taxes on UK flights

As much as £6 of every £10 spent on domestic flights goes to the Treasury, campaigners have revealed.

The A Fair Tax On Flying campaign, which revealed the amounts that the Air Passenger Duty (APD) accounts for on internal flights, called for Philip Hammond, the Chancellor, to use his forthcoming Budget to cut APD by at least 50 per cent.

Each passenger is charged APD on flights departing from UK airports. The rate for a short-haul, economy class ticket is £13 per leg, which goes to the Treasury. In one example, the APD made up 58 per cent of a flight from London Stansted to Glasgow.