Flight Centre extends air ticketing to travel agencies

Flight Centre is delighted to offer the services of their globally awarded ticketers to all travel agencies in South Africa.

Many smaller agencies often are unable to process their own tickets owing to the financial constraints of purchasing an IATA licence. As a result agencies have had to rely on the individual airlines to ticket for them. Smaller agencies now have a new, attractive option: to enter into an agreement with Flight Centre to issue tickets on their behalf. By using the expertise of Flight Centre’s centralised ticketers, agencies can have access to a range of professional benefits under the Flight Centre umbrella.

Sarel du Plessis, Business Leader for Flight Centre’s Ticketing division, is very upbeat about this new development: “We are in a fantastic position to help the smaller agencies  enter a level playing field by offering professional ticketing services.”

Some of these benefits include a 24-hour emergency service available seven days a week. Flight Centre will also take care of the re-issuing of tickets, date changes and name changes at no extra cost. Other benefits include weekly progress and billing reports, experienced ticketers, monthly meetings, ADM disputes, refund services and access to selected Flight Centre private fares. By providing an efficient back office, Flight Centre’s clients also have access to finance staff who will reconcile all billings.

The service will be offered at a very affordable rate.  A joining fee of R1000 per agency applies with ticketing charges ranging from R60 (inclusive of VAT) to R90 depending on ticket type.

Mr du Plessis believes that Flight Centre’s fourteen years of dedicated ticketing experience will add a professional dimension to any local travel business: “we want to offer the smaller agencies a taste of what Flight Centre can add to their bottom line”.