The Gooner Forum

Can't believe all these years the only reason airport retailers want to see your boarding pass is so they can reclaim VAT at 20% making their airport operations ridiculously profitable. And is any of this tax saving passed on to the consumer, is it fuck.

So next time I go to the airport on a long haul flight, they can stick their boarding pass where the sun don't shine.

How about these??? Surely they're worth 20% of anyone's air fare?

I think id make several attempts at landing on them

Thought they were asking for boarding arses all along

Sorry, I thought that this was a thread about the new Government policy on border entry to England!

I must admit I naively assumed the shops in departures were all duty free and the reason for showing the boarding pass was all part and parcel with the CUSTOMER getting cheaper goods.

How on earth has it taken this long for this practice to become public knowledge; it's been going on for years!

They have refused to serve me in the past because my boarding pass was in my girlfriends bag, so the fact it turns out it was never compulsory and didn't benefit me in the slightest is a piss take

Yeah my missus carries all the passports and boarding passes as I am not responsible enough apparently But I have been able to buy goods without it any time I have tried, I did know it wasn't compulsory too.

If you are going on a long haul flight and are stopping off in dubai get you cigs there cos they are nearly a third of the price of gatwick/heathrow.

It is a big scam though and as usual we are getting shafted in this country as per.

Who needs a Boarding Pass when you've got a Bomb Strapped to you?

Allah is great!