Britain's major airlines and travel operators are preparing to sue Gordon Brown over his controversial 'stealth tax' on air travel which threatens to create chaos at airport check-in desks from February 1.
They are to talking to lawyers with a view to mounting a legal challenge against his decision to backdate a doubling of the 'air-tax' paid by travellers - which they believe to be illegal.
Hard-working families who have already booked tickets to take their children abroad in the February half-term holiday or at Easter or on ski-ing trips now face handing over hundreds of pounds in extra 'air tax' at check-in.
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