Indian agents get commission reprieve
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India’s top three air carriers – National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines – have jointly deferred cutting travel agents’ commission from the existing 5% to nil by one month. However, agents say that it doesn’t make a difference, The Indian Express reported.
“They made a presentation to us and therefore we have agreed to defer cutting the commission by a month,” an NACIL spokesperson was quoted saying.
Shahrukh Kapadia, managing committee member of Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI), was quoted saying; “After giving all the reasons why zero commission is not a good idea and highlighting that the airlines’ were not well prepared to accept a new system, all they do is defer it by a month.”
In June this year, the airlines had informed agents of the cut and had fixed the effective date of 1 October for the change in the six-decade-old system.
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