{"id":86869,"date":"2011-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelstartblg.wpenginepowered.com\/what-are-airport-taxes-on-a-ticket-know-what-youre-paying-for\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:49:35","slug":"what-are-airport-taxes-on-a-ticket-know-what-youre-paying-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelstart.co.za\/blog\/what-are-airport-taxes-on-a-ticket-know-what-youre-paying-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Airport Taxes On A Ticket? Know What You&#8217;re Paying For!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16657\" href=\"https:\/\/travelstartstg.wpenginepowered.com\/what-are-airport-taxes-on-a-ticket-know-what-youre-paying-for\/plane-ticket\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16657 alignleft\" title=\"Plane ticket\" src=\"https:\/\/travelstartmu.wpenginepowered.com\/zablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Plane-ticket.jpg\" alt=\"close up of boarding pass\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>At Travelstart we always include all taxes in ticket prices, but we\u2019ve all fallen victim to it before, a travel agent or airline telling you about some amazing fare like R3000 to London, you can\u2019t believe your eyes until you notice the little asterisk at the end of the price pointing you to the fine print. Hidden down there, you notice \u201cprice excludes approximate taxes of R3500\u201d and the price suddenly jumps up to R6500 \u2013 not so great any more.\u00a0 What exactly are you paying for in taxes? Some people call them \u201cairport taxes\u201d, this is in fact a fallacy, only a very small portion of the tax goes to the airport. Let\u2019s have a closer look:<\/p>\n<h2>Domestic ticket taxes<\/h2>\n<p>A certain ticket from Johannesburg to Cape Town, return, has a fare of R1820 plus taxes totaling R875, but what do these taxes cover? Basically it is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R255 VAT on the ticket ( 14% of R1820 fare which the government takes)<\/li>\n<li>R172 passenger service charge (which the airport takes)<\/li>\n<li>R22 passenger safety charge (goes to the Civil Aviation Authority to pay for \u201csafety promotion activities\u201d like pilot training exams\/programs)<\/li>\n<li>and R426 fuel surcharge (this is a complicated one I\u2019ll explain later).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>International ticket taxes<\/h2>\n<p>A ticket to London has a fare of R3140 and taxes of a huge R2902, what is it you\u2019re paying for here?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R11 passenger safety charge (as above)<\/li>\n<li>R150 South African departure tax (to the government)<\/li>\n<li>R198 South African passenger service charge<\/li>\n<li>R858 British departure tax (to the government)<\/li>\n<li>R263 British passenger service charge (to the airport)<\/li>\n<li>and a whopping R1422 fuel surcharge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The fuel surcharge<\/h2>\n<p>Information on the fuel surcharge is very hard to come by, sometimes \u201cno longer available\u201d or just not mentioned at all, so here is my understanding of it based on feedback from my colleagues in the travel industry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, September 11th happened and a war began, airlines were a bit panicky about compensation they may need to pay to passengers for future attacks and began charging a security fee (war tax). Fuel had always been covered in the fare but as the wars expanded to Iraq and fuel prices began to soar, airlines were worried about it climbing even more. They bulk bought their fuel at moderately higher \u201cfuture prices\u201d \u2013 basically estimating what the price might climb to going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, the fuel price didn\u2019t go up as much as expected and they lost out. To recoup costs, a fuel surcharge was levied and coupled with the security fee \u2013 built into the fare of the ticket. The issue was then that airlines paid travel agents commission on fares, meaning they were paying commission on their surcharge and losing out extra money. To counter this many airlines removed the charge from the fare and added it to the taxes.<\/p>\n<p>So that in short, according to my sources, is what you\u2019re paying for in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seasonalplume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Sabas<\/a> on Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Travelstart we always include all taxes in ticket prices, but we\u2019ve all fallen victim to it before, a travel agent or airline telling you about some amazing fare like R3000 to London, you can\u2019t believe your eyes until you notice the little asterisk at the end of the price pointing you to the fine print. Hidden down there, you notice \u201cprice excludes approximate taxes &#8230; <a title=\"What Are Airport Taxes On A Ticket? 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