It will mean shock extra bills of hundreds of pounds for those taking their children abroad in the February half-term holiday or on Easter skiing breaks. Horrified travel industry bosses say there will be massive delays and unnecessary bureaucracy as airport staff are forced to act as unofficial tax-collectors. The Chancellor announced in his pre-Budget statement on Wednesday that air passenger duty would double from February 1. Crucially, however, the tax applies when passengers fly, not when they book their tickets. It means the estimated four million holidays already booked after February will cost more than expected, as will many pre-planned business flights. So if you have booked its a finger raised to you from Mr Brown. If they upgrade to any other class, as many families do, the cost will be £400, £200 more than expected. Naturally he will use the excuse that the moneys needed for education or some such nonsense, unlike the 8 billion in aid he gave away to African dictators not so long ago. Of course had cyclops not wasted our gold reserves a few years back there might be a few extra pennys in his coffers. The travel industry, which has already branded passenger duty the "poll tax of the skies" says the prospect of such chaos is "ludicrous". It is holding "a council of war" on Friday to considering lobbying the Chancellor to change the way his extra levy will kick in. Dont hold your breath for that to work, old one eye has turned his eagle gaze on another cash cow and he is going to milk it to death. A spokesperson for the airlines said "The Chancellor's decision to make the extra tax retrospective is causing great concern. It will affect tens of thousands of passengers, create a logistical nightmare and bring more chaos to the airports. Hurrah just what the stressed traveller needs, an extra bill and more delays. "Thousands of families have booked their ski-ing trips and their Easter breaks. They book their summer holidays a year ahead to get the best deals. "Now the Chancellor expects airlines and travel companies to go back to those customers - who have paid an agreed and transparent-price for their trip - and ask them to hand over even more money. "Apart from the inherent unfairness, it will create a logistical nightmare." He added: "Just how is this tax going to be collected? The Chancellor has not thought this through. "Check-in staff cannot accept cash so we will have to resort to doing transactions on credit cards. It will cause hold-ups. There is a lot of anger. Passengers will be rightly furious. It will be a nightmare." The big names who will be consulting Friday, through their respective trade bodies, over what action to take, are understood to include major airlines such as British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and bmi British Midland-low cost airlines such as easyJet and travel companies such as FirstChoice and Thomas Cook. The Treasury says the extra tax will help pay for the environmental damage caused by flight. Ah so its a green tax, a tax in favour of the unproven global warming theory. Not content with normal taxes, Brown resorts to a guilt tax on the public. Pay up or the trees get it! Utter bollocks, cyclops Brown has got his sums wrong and needs to raise some taxes to help fill a bloody great hole in public finances(see link below)
Not content with raising stealth taxes our beloved mono eye'd Chancellor has decided that people who can actually afford to go abroad should get yet more taxes imposed on them.
He has decided that air taxes are to go up again, you can bet that this wont be the last time under him that this happens either.
The doubling of the duty, charged when a flight takes off from a UK airport, will impact most heavily on families on annual holidays. A family of five travelling basic economy class to Disneyland, Africa or Australia will face a bill of £200 - against £100 last year - as the long-haul "cheap" rate doubles to £40 each. 
Vote Labour next election.
some more on the waster of our money, seems public finances are in a mess
Tags: Gordon Brown, Zanu New Labour, Air Taxes, Global Warming,
The bit about how shit Gordon "cyclops" Brown is - re the gold reserves: The Chancellor sold 395 tonnes of Britain’s gold reserves between 1999 and 2002, generating $3.5 billion. At yesterday’s London closing price of $554.10 he would have generated more than $7 billion (£4 billion). - A net loss of $3.5 Billion. What a twat.
"The idea that he's a team player is utterly ludicrous. He comes into the Cabinet with a big sheaf of papers and scribbles on them, ignoring the discussion. He sees a small number of civil servants as 'one of us', bypasses others' (A former Permanent Secretary who has worked closely with Gordon "cyclops" Brown, Daily Telegraph, 22 September 2006).
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