AA id90 “Taxes”
 

I don’t use them often because of what a colossal pain in the @$$ their booking system is, but I’ve noticed when I book int’l non-rev travel on AA, the taxes & fees are way higher than what we pay on our own metal. Happened to be traveling on the same flight as a buddy who paid full fair & sure enough, I paid 2x in “taxes” what he did.

Edit: after looking at some other bookings I don’t think it’s just AA but I have noticed it specifically on them- seems to happen more in Latin America, maybe? Just not sure why “taxes” would be variable from one airline to the next. Anyone understand what’s up with this?

Wonder if they ar collecting "round trip" taxes.

I think some taxes are baked into the fare, tax law varies as well between countries with regard to fares and also employee travel.

You’re suggesting the associated governments are taxing the airlines differently based on online/offline status of non-revs? I suppose it’s possible but seeing as how I’d pay the same taxes non-reving on company metal that I would as a full-fare traveler on any airline, paying twice that as an offline non-rev seems kind of fishy.

Have any non-UAL guys encountered this on us? Would be interesting to know if we’re doing the same thing or if it’s only happening in one direction.

I have seen differences in taxes on NR, Buddy Pass, and international DH for the same route. Maybe there is a flat tax portion and then an additional amout tacked on based on fare price?

Yeah although if it was fare based you’d expect the full fare guys to be paying more than the non-revs. I probably would draw the same conclusion at 15% or 20%, but 100% markup feels outside the range of variance I’d expect, so I wondered if anyone knew something I was missing.

Who knows- maybe it’s designed with the intention of being confusing.

Maybe I'm not understanding. I have JS(I said DH in a previous post in Biden speak) and had to pay a tax even though the ticket price was $0. That was less than a NR tax or much less than than ZED or Buddy pass.

Thus, a flat tax portion and then an additional added tax based on the CC charged "ticket" price.

IOW The .gov is involved(worldwide) so intentionally nebulous as you alluded to.

As I understand it the ID90 taxes are based on the highest full fare price (almost no one pays the full fare) so anyone who paid a lower fare would have lower taxes (other than the flat taxes).

Your tax rate will also vary for many countries based on the highest cabin class your booking allows you to be placed into.