Please indulge me.
I have just been fleeced at the airport. A minor fleecing, to be sure, but infuriating because it smacks of extorsion.
First, £5 (about 7.5$ CAN) just to be dropped off by a taxi.
Second, unannounced until I had my boarding card, a £10 airport fee. This is the most dishonest, since it is really an addition to the ticket price. Given that I was captive, they could have shaken me down for £100, and I would still have had to pay.
This type of fee should be levied when there is still the possibility to choose (ie when planning one’s travel and buying tickets), not as an afterthought shakedown.
Who knows: if the true price were known in advance, maybe alternative modes of transport would begin to look attractive.
Bring on a real carbon tax….
OK. I now have that off my chest…
Richard Shearmur 