Here's the breakdown of a Canb-Melb flight I just booked on the to be avoided at (almost) any cost Tiger Airlines.
Ticket Fare AU |
12.85 |
23% |
Airport Charges, AU |
31.65 |
56% |
GST (if applicable) AU |
4.45 |
8% |
Service Fees inclusive of Tax AU |
7.2 |
13% |
Total Cost AU |
56.15 |
100% |
Now 'airport charges' are not all airport charges. Some of it is presumably tax. The 'service fees' are for a Mastercard payment (which the Tiger website told me would cost nothing - but the incompetence of Tiger is only an aside here, not my point). But it's quite a table nevertheless. The service provider gets 23%, the government gets 10% (allowing for tax on the service fees) and at least on the face of it the rest goes to the monopolies running our airport and financial services (though Tiger takes a juicy cut of the financial services cost).