Originally Posted by
BGD011
Thanks for your reply...
Have friends European pilots and when they jumpseat EU-DR and DR-EU pay zero, not even international taxes.
Supposedly airline collects the tax on behalf of a country for each TICKET SOLD and at the end of the month submits the payment for tax X number of tickets sold to the foreign government. Since actual jumpseat is not for sale and airline collects jumseater's int'l tax, such tax will never be paid to the country. Hence extra $$$ stays with the company.
Most European airlines don't allow jumpseating at all without some form of paid ticket. The taxes are usually a combination of several fees and taxes. There is normally a customs fee and a immigration fee along with a departure tax. The departure tax is usually a fixed amount per person and has nothing to do with the price of the ticket. There are often airport fees on top of that. The airlines do pay the fees. The tax for any UK airport are around 200.00 dollars total.