In Reply to: July: New Airline regs posted by Badak Sinting on Wednesday, 30. March 2005 at 09:21 Bali Time:
The commission cuts with QF are referring to domestic travel. A lot of airlines these days are cutting commissions and yes agents will start imposing service charges. Good on them!! Travel Agents do it in America as the airlines dont pay them commission. They have to eat just like us. Thats what makes it so annoying when people go to travel agents expecting them to give discounts. They give you a discount and that means thats less money in their pockets to feed , cloth and house their families.
Wouldnt you be annoyed if you were self employed and you were continually asked for a discount on your service or product.
Next time you go to your travel agent, just think before you ask for a discount or a price match. A travel agent may put in hours of work on your holiday booking (which you may not be aware of)and earn around 10%commission. Not much is it when the holiday you booked only cost you $800.
Long live Travel Agents !!!! They do their job because they love it and they help all of us experience our dreams !!