The airline is adding £60 to the cost of its long-distance return flights, only a month after its previous price rise.

That will mean a family of four that is already paying £672 in surcharges on long-haul holiday flights must now find £872.

The increase comes as households struggle with increasing food and fuel bills and only weeks before the start of the main holiday season. More than five million people a month will fly from British airports — 1.2 million on BA flights.

The airline’s announcement will be unpopular with parents, who already pay a premium for flying during the school holidays. Lesser increases on shorter flights will also affect the 800,000 people who have holiday homes abroad.

Thursday’s rises took the surcharge on a flight of nine hours or longer, which would include destinations such as Los Angeles and Bangkok, from £158 to £218.

For example, this would raise the cost of a return flight from London to Los Angeles for a family of four from £1,672 this week to £1,912 once the surcharges come into force next Tuesday. Travellers who have already purchased tickets will not be affected.

Passengers on shorter flights — such as those to New York — will see the cost of a return trip rise by £30 with a new surcharge of £156 — up from £126.

The rises will also add £6 to the cost of a short-haul return flight, taking the surcharge total to £32 from £26.

The additional costs are even greater than those announced at the end of last month when the surcharge for a return flight of more than nine hours went up by £30, taking it to £158 from £128.

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