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Posted Jul 20, 2009

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The now big political spat over credit card fees that UAL want the agents to shoulder has everyone weighing in. As Richard Eastman noted many weeks ago this has significant potential implications. However, as I have noted, this is not something for everyone to get their noses bent out of shape on. We do have many other issues that are perhaps more important.
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Posted Jun 25, 2009

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No one can wait or depend on the success of the suggested ASTA government effort. Some significant groupings of large corporate travel agencies are considering what action they might take individually. Here's a fully manageable plan which can work. The following plan (if taken by enough agencies) will send a clear and costly message to UAL over the next weeks ...
While the current "test" merchant program (or any similar form) exists:
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ASTA is mad at Delta. The association on Wednesday accused the carrier of "forcibly" collecting travel agency funds for "booking violations that were, in some cases, likely caused by technical issues related to Delta's audit program, rather than by agency malfeasance."
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American Airlines this week established new ticketing restrictions on refundable fares. "On most premium cabin and full-fare coach inventories, this change will add a ticketing requirement of three days before departure or one day after the booking is made, whichever comes later," according to AA's Web site. "All other refundable coach fares require ticketing within one day of booking."
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Delta Air Lines yesterday began auditing "all GDS user transactions to identify booking policy violations," according to the carrier's Online Agency Service Center. Violators would be charged $3.50 per net passenger segment or a $50 fee, "depending on the nature of the violation."
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Finding that "no alternative to the current settlement system as provided by the Airlines Reporting Corp. was feasible unless accepted by all major air carriers," the American Society of Travel Agents' task force investigating the potential for an alternate airline ticket settlement system has "held its last meeting," ASTA said.
According to ASTA President and CEO Cheryl Hudak, "The current system is untenable and yet there is no viable alternative. ARC is a monopoly--it has no competition and accordingly there are no options."
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