Travel advice: How to avoid sky-high air tax

Air Passenger Duty, a Government tax on travellers flying from UK airports, has been increasing in leaps and bounds over the past few years - and on November 1 it shot up by as much as 55 per cent on some long-haul routes
The most graphic example is that the whole of the US falls in the 2,001-4,000 mile Band B, because its capital, Washington DC, is 3,675 miles from London. By comparison, Caribbean countries lie in the more expensive Band C, even though Barbados, for example, is far closer to the UK than California, let alone Hawaii.

Read more: Travel advice: How to avoid sky-high air tax