posted by admin on May 30
But airlines have no reason, andcertainly no obligation, to offer you the lowest price. Their goal, whether on the phone or on the Internet, is toconvince you to pay for ticket is like askingthe IRS how much tax they want you to pay theyll give youan answer, but theres no reason to expect it to be the onethats in your best interest. Are travel agents services worth paying for? Surveys byjournalists and consumer organizations have consistentlyfound that good travel agents can place you and the highestpriority list, on which you can be placed only by specialrequest by the airline itself.
They also offer in the same integrated comparison, socalled whitelabel fares that offer many of the advantages of tickets from Priceline without the drawbacks of hidden prices or unforseeable schedules. It issometimes possible to cheap ticket on very shortnotice, but you rarely cheaper ticket than if you went through travel agent or anindependent Web site. Individual offers to Priceline are not sent to the airlines, not are they individually evaluated by the airlines they are evaluated only by Priceline to see if you have offered enough more than Pricelines contracted to make it worth their while.
Ifa consolidator fare is too successful, the airline willraise the fare or terminate the contract. The more expensive the tickets and distant the destinations, obviously, the greater the potential savings. you cant find discount agent in your country who knows anything about travel for surfers or people who use wheelchairs, or whatever. airlineshave at least two, usually three, levels of waiting lists.
am not seeking thisbusiness, and would decline it if offered. Often they forbid retail agents whobuy tickets from them from giving out their direct contactinformation, since their thin wholesale margins include noallowance for retail customer service. One of the important skills for abucket shop agent is having feel for the wholesale ticketmarket. Discount retail agents compete atnegotiating deals and tracking down wholesale suppliers, andguard their information about prices, commissions, andsuppliers zealously. Any list of retail discounters wouldbecome obsolete too quickly to be useful. If you dont, the agent makeanother booking for you, and both be canceled. Priceline.
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