Airlines collected UK airport tax despite exemption, claim travel agents

They say flyers were not told UK upped age limit for tax exemption to 16 years from 12 in March 2016

Teenagers may have paid a higher price for air travel from the UK for over a year as airlines did not inform agents of a tax exemption.

All passengers departing from an airport in the UK pay air passenger duty (APD), which varies according to distance and class of travel. While economy class passengers till the age of 12 are exempted from the APD, the UK authorities extended the exemption below the age of 16 from March 2016.

The Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) has claimed that airlines did not inform them about procedures to issue tickets without charging the