Anti-APD Alliance Keeps Growing

Multicom, Definitive Caribbean, Newmont Travel and the Wales Air Forum are the latest to join anti-Air Passenger Duty campaign group, A Fair Tax on Flying.

Six weeks ago, A Fair Tax on Flying launched a campaign to get 100,000 consumers and businesses to email their MP, objecting to the level of APD; last week, it announced that more than 85,000 had done so.

The group is also calling for a major Treasury review into the impact of APD on the UK economy, and urging MPs to back a parliamentary motion about the issue.

Feona Gray, co-founder of The Definitive Caribbean Guide, said: “As the Caribbean’s leading resource for news and information affecting the entire region, it was only natural for Definitive Caribbean to get involved in the campaign behind A Fair Tax on Flying. I urge everyone who hasn’t already, to please join the campaign so we can achieve the 100,000 mark and even go beyond it.”

Lindsay Ingram, general manager of Newmont Travel, added: ‘While the Caribbean has come off badly in the APD structure the tax is now having a dramatic impact on the UK’s economy.

Other members of A Fair Tax on Flying include ABTA, British Airways, BAA, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Expedia, the Caribbean Council, Thomas Cook, TUI Travel, UKinbound and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).