Travel agents are perplexed as foreign airlines have stopped charging passengers airport/user development fee as per a recent Supreme Court order.
Travel agents are perplexed as foreign airlines have stopped charging passengers airport/user development fee as per a recent Supreme Court order.
Also the airlines are not adhering to a one year old high court order which asked them to pay commission to travel agents. Tired of waiting for almost a year the agents have now decided to approach the civil aviation minister to get the order enforced.
“Foreign airlines are making a mockery of the Kerala high court order passed last year asking airlines to pay commission to travel agents,” said Rajesh Rateria, chairman, Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI). “All the airlines have issued us circulars asking not to charge airport development fee from passengers. But the same airlines are not acceding to the HC order of March 15, 2010,” he said.
In fact the airlines have asked the travel agents to collect their commission as transaction fee from passengers. “We are charging anywhere between Rs30 and 40 on domestic tickets while 2% in case of international ones. But why should the passengers pay the fees.
It is the airline which should pay us as we are getting them the business,” said another travel agent from Andheri (West). “These are the same airlines that are paying commission in other countries but are denying it to Indian agents,” he says.
The TAAI has decided to meet aviation minister Vayalar Ravi to apprise him about this situation. “With no one listening to us and openly flouting HC order we have no option but to meet the minister. We are seeking an appointment from him soon,” says Rateria.
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