Thread: Flight taxes experts?

Originally Posted by Nick

Very interesting. So when I go to tigerairways.com in SG and try to book something and it states "taxes and fees $50", I can be assured most of that is tiger fees that they refuse to offer a breakdown for. That would be illegal in Australia as a misleading fare... all taxes have to be accounted for and displayed, but I guess not in Singapore.

My guess is that anything above and beyond the amounts I gave you are fees imposed by the airline, not a government agency, to cover fuel and/or insurance costs. These are collected using a tax code and shown in the taxes/fees/charges section of the ticket. They are not a fare and are very common. They can't, however, be collected on ZED tickets.