In Reply to: AP & Flight Centre posted by natters on Thursday, 5. January 2006 at 11:15 Bali Time:
I dont think the travel agents pay your money out immediately or even directly to the airline. I believe the money will lie in a trust account,supposedly, for an indeterminate time before being passed on to the wholesaler who will then,eventually, pay the airline for the seat they have booked in your name and also pay the hotel sometime after you have presented your hotel voucher,therefore no voucher to the hotel probably no payment.An example would be that you pay maybe 4 month in advance but dont recieve your tickets for a further 2 months or so,I believe that the airline will issue tickets shortly after payment not wait for weeks or months, so your money could be anywhere and not neccesarrily with the airline.
Ted