Posts Tagged ‘agency’

 

How to find out the suitable GDS (Airline Booking or Reservation system)system for a new travel agency?

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Its for a UK* based travel agency.There are 4 major GDS system(Airline Reservation System*) for travel agent to book or reserve air ticket or hotel or cruise.They are Amedues,Worldspan,Galileo and Sabre…i need to find out which one is suitable for my travel agency(non IATA or ATOL**) interms of booking air ticket, check out fare and reservation.Mostly I’ll deal with Air India*,British Airlines*, Pakistan Int.Airlines*, Biman Bamgladesh Airlines*, Thai Air,Jet Air*, Emirates Airline*, Gulf Air*, Ittihad Airlines*,Kuwait Air, Qatar Airlines*, Air China, Virgin Atlantic*,Singapore Airlines, Luftahnsa Airlines,Delata Airlines and some airlines for Australia, Canada, Brazil,USA.

 

Buy ticket through travel agency and have airline refund it?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Is there a way to buy a ticket through travel agency and have the airline refund it? I bought it through them, however, they are saying they will not refund it and will give me flight credit instead… DaMn priceline… So now I have credit, am in Canada so I cannot use priceline here…

 

Which one is better to buy air ticket from? – travel agency or directly from airline?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I am planning to take my 8 month old baby to overseas. I want to request a bassinet and special meals for him. Is it better to buy ticket directly from the airline so that I can request all those things personally or does travel agency do all that for me?