Deception

Airline tickets are becoming costlier by the day, with airlines telling everyone it is owing to government taxes/fees or charges. They are wrong. As a routine practice, airlines mention various amounts against codes which people take as taxes. The list of codes can be viewed on the website of International Air Transport Association (IATA). It is paradoxical that double charges are being recovered from passengers for the development of two different airports under differing codes. The national airline, for instance, charges the passengers travelling to Toronto for infrastructure development under code YD, and it also recovers a fee as Canadian airport improvement charges under code SQ. Also of interest are codes YQ and YR. The airlines are boosting revenues while passing on the blame to the government.

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