Europe airport tax questions

[BigTop]

Am thinking of redeeming an award ticket via Europe. Looking at options including LH and LX.

My bigger concern is: which European airports have the highest and lowest taxes? I know LHR takes the prize but I'm not too sure if I'll even incur taxes if I transit and not stopover? (<24 hours)

[SQflyergirl]

If you're referring to transiting in London the UB tax (Passenger service charge) still applies, but the much bigger GB (UK APD) doesn't.

[SMK77]

Departing from London for long-haul is prohibitively expensive when flying Biz and First: 184 GBP is pretty steep.

Germany has now 42.18 EUR which is not too bad but still comes on top.

All other countries are good as a starting point!

[BigTop]

Thanks for the replies.

I might do XXX-FRA/LHR-YYY (<24hrs stop). In this case, I only pay transit taxes for both airports?

[MSPeconomist]

CDG can be bad in business and FC.

Another issue to consider is how premium economy tickets are treated with respect to airport "luxury" taxes.