Britain to scrap air travel taxes for children

British finance minister George Osborne said he would make it cheaper for families to travel by scrapping an air travel tax charged for children, prompting airlines to call on him to go further and also abolish the levy in its entirety. Britain's APD is a tax of between 13 pounds ($20.5) and 194 pounds depending on flight distance and class of travel charged on each passenger leaving the country, and which the airline industry says has a negative impact on the economy. (uk.reuters.com) Mehr...