Skip The UK This Year

Today the UK added an additional $78 to their tax on airline tickets, bringing taxes for tickets to London to just around $300. In addition, the tax is retroactive, so the airlines are sending passengers who already hold tickets bills for the additional amount, and will refuse to board them if they don't pay.

This has resulted in the ridiculous situation that on the NYC-London route, the taxes are now more than the cost of the ticket.

And with the pound at $1.96 as of today, I can think of no possible reason to visit London in the near future.