You’re very mixed up with all of this. As has already been said, government imposed taxes are the same, regardless of airline. The bag charges, seat allocation charges, extra legroom charges, are merely an instrument used by the cheap end of the market (ChavAir aka Ryanair et al) to recover additional revenue that they don’t gather as a result of finding the need to advertise and particuarly low “head line” (i.e. £0.01) fares in the first place. Basically, the ignorant punter sees the headline £0.01 fare and thinks “great, really cheap” and fails to consider all the extras Con-Air (sorry, Ryanair) will try to impose to bump up its monetary take. It can sometimes be the case that the regular full-service airlines can be as cheap or cheaper than Chavair, if you take into consideration all of the extras the supposed low-fare airlines can snag you for. As far as the UK government is concerned, they don’t have any interest in stopping people flying due to concerns about global warning – their interest is much more directed towards gaining another taxation stream that can be used to swell the treasury coffers. As to whether this will stop people flying – I doubt it, and I think its more likely that Chavair (O’Leary Air) will score an own goal by imposing too many add-on charges that discourage travel than will government imposed taxes.

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I couldn’t have put that better myself Mr Skymonster…;)