2006-09-10 22:16:46 · 4 answers · asked by hog4ubaby 2 in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Glasgow
flying with loganair, am I being ripped off or is there a logical reason, whay it is so expensive to fly from islands to GLA, and cheap to fly from GLA to islands.
2006-09-10 22:18:29 · update #1
When you fly, you pay airport tax for the airport where you land - not the one you take off from. So, when you fly from a Scottish island to a UK mainport, the mainport taxes add to to the ticket price. The other way around, the tax added by the island airport hardly dent the ticket price. Also, the airline pays for rights to land at an airport. They pay much more to land on a main port, than they pay to land on a minor airport. This is why Ryanair fly to places like Charleroi, Weeze and other place you might have never heard of - and sell it as tickets to Brussels and Duesseldorf.
I've got the same problem every time I fly from Edinburgh to Amsterdam - it's so much more expensive than flying to Edinburgh.
2006-09-10 23:58:36 · answer #1 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This can be case for all one way tickets. The airlines don't want empty unpaid for seats. So if you get a return you have paid for a seat on the return by buying a one way that means there is one more seat they have to sell for that destination.
2006-09-11 05:21:07 · answer #2 · answered by Alicat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't want people to leave, so they make it more expensive in the hope that you won't be able to afford to leave
2006-09-11 05:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by sparkleythings_4you 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is to encourage visitors to the island and promote tourism. stupid isnt it
2006-09-11 05:20:25 · answer #4 · answered by sleepwalker69 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋