THIS would suggest that you can get a refund, good luck!:D

http://www.evaair.com/html/b2c/english/tips/Ticketing/E-ticket/

That will be subject to the ticket conditions however. I would be hugely surprised if a £500 ticket to BKK was refundable.

You should be able to get your taxes back though and they should amount to around £75-£150 after admin fees.

Do you have a Blue card or a Blue Plus card? Only a Blue Plus card will get you free catering.

It is never a good idea to buy an economy saver ticket. Economy Standard is only £2-£5 more expensive in the vast majority of cases, allows you to select your seat and crucially is also changeable. It also gives you a few more miles IIRC too.

What do you mean? Where are you getting the information from that “Manx Airlines” are flying in South Africa?

It used to be Farnborough based and used the callsign Sharjah One. Kingdom is one of the big Saudi Royal Fleets so I presume they have taken the management of it over and moved it over to Gatwick…

It is F-WWDD in some rubbish corporate Airbus scheme, not the nice one it was in last Farnborough.

Made quite an impressive display over my garden this morning as ever!

Have you ever flown AA business class??

Many times. Of the current generation of lie flat seats it is one of the worst configurations possible, the staff are usually dreadful and the food service is mediocre on a good day. The even more worrying thing is that food and service are identical between First and Business Class.

That said I will continue to fly AA in all their 3 classes over the next 6 months, almost entirely down to the ridiculous ease with which it is possible to access the Premium cabins and because of the generousness of the AAdantage programme.

however, if you are staying in the UK for a day or more and then getting an onward flight, then it seems right that they should be made to pay along with everyone else?

Which they do.

Transit = Layover less than 24 hours
Stopover = Layover over 24 hours

If you transit you don’t pay APD
If you stopover you do pay APD