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TravelBizMonitor has provided a break-up on the Travel Agent Transaction Fee.
As per the decision, travel agents will now charge a Transaction Fee of Rs 350 per ticket on domestic Economy Class, Rs 500 per ticket on domestic Business Class, Rs 2,500 per Economy Class booklet and Rs 3,500 per Business Class booklet. Interestingly, tickets purchased for SAARC, which include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be included under domestic travel. On international tickets, Economy Class that falls under TC1, which includes North and South America, Australia and New Zealand and TC2, which includes Europe, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Africa and South West Pacific will be charged Rs 2,500 and TC3, which includes Middle East, South East Asia and China will be charged Rs 1,200. On international Business tickets for TC1 and TC2, the charge will be Rs. 5,000 while for TC3 will be Rs 2,000. International First Class tickets will be charged a fee of Rs 10,000 on TC1 and TC2 (Including South West Pacific) and Rs 5,000 on TC3 category.
But what is positively disgusting is that the transaction fee will not be refundable and can be charged over and over again.
It has also been decided that the Transaction Fee will not be refundable and will be retained by travel agents, even when a ticket is processed for refund. The agents can charge a fee over and above the cancellation charges for any modification or cancellation. The airlines will also charge the same Transaction Fee at the City Traffic Office, Airport Traffic Office and the website.
Do you work and not expect to be paid for it? There is nothing more annoying than a customer changing and changing. You have no idea how many steps it takes to change one airline ticket. It takes 3 times longer to change a ticket than to initially run it. It is time consuming and very tedious. Just fyi..the average cost to agencies on the overhead to run a ticket is 27.50USD. Then the 3.5 percent cc fee they pay so you can use a card..they make 9.00 per ticket if they are lucky. So if they do not charge for the change..they are in the loss column..Grow up!