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From: Kiran on 2 May 2007 13:54 I haven't done this in a while, but yesterday I went to a travel agency to buy a ticket. Its locations is convenient to my new office, so I thought why not. I was surprised when they said they charge $25 per ticket. This wasn't a consolidator deal, but regular published fare. Used to be that travel agents got paid by airlines. Who pays them now? Airline commissions or customer fees?
From: Kiran on 2 May 2007 15:40 Hilary <hilary+usenet(a)spamcop.net> wrote: : Most US travel agents get no commission for published fares, so the only : way for them to not lose money is to charge a booking fee. How have things changed while I was either not traveling or buying online! I certainly don't begrudge them a fair fee.
From: Jeff Hacker on 2 May 2007 16:18 "Kiran" <kiran(a)no.email> wrote in message news:020520071254323966%kiran(a)no.email... >I haven't done this in a while, but yesterday I went to a travel agency > to buy a ticket. Its locations is convenient to my new office, so I > thought why not. I was surprised when they said they charge $25 per > ticket. > > This wasn't a consolidator deal, but regular published fare. Used to be > that travel agents got paid by airlines. Who pays them now? Airline > commissions or customer fees? For several years it has been the customer. The airlines don't pay commissions anymore.
From: Geoff Glave on 2 May 2007 22:54 > Who pays them now? Airline > commissions or customer fees? The *customer* always paid them. Back in the day, ticket prices were high, so the airline paid the TA a fee. Now, ticket prices are low so the fee is added to the cost of the ticket. Either way, the customer paid - Either the fee was rolled into the (higher-priced) ticket, or the fee's outside the (now much cheaper) ticket. Cheers, Geoff Glave Vancouver, Canada
From: Binyamin Dissen on 3 May 2007 11:16
On Wed, 2 May 2007 15:18:53 -0500 "Jeff Hacker" <jhacker(a)usa.net> wrote: :>"Kiran" <kiran(a)no.email> wrote in message :>news:020520071254323966%kiran(a)no.email... :>>I haven't done this in a while, but yesterday I went to a travel agency :>> to buy a ticket. Its locations is convenient to my new office, so I :>> thought why not. I was surprised when they said they charge $25 per :>> ticket. :>> This wasn't a consolidator deal, but regular published fare. Used to be :>> that travel agents got paid by airlines. Who pays them now? Airline :>> commissions or customer fees? :>For several years it has been the customer. The airlines don't pay :>commissions anymore. If the TA has enough volume and is thus able to "steer" the clients to other airlines, they do get something. But there is very little commission on domestic US flights. -- Binyamin Dissen <bdissen(a)dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. |