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Chapter 6: Basic ticketing and prepaids.(SECTION II: United States Air Travel)
- Article from:
- A Guide to Becoming a Travel Professional
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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SUMMARY
Much of the information you learned in previous chapters is put into use in this chapter. Airline codes, airport codes, types of trips, fare and tax calculation, and so on are all part of ticketing. All of a travel professional's knowledge and customer service is fine, but if it fails to result in a booking and sale of travel, it has produced no revenue for the travel agency. Almost all air travel within North America and many international trips are handled as electronic ticket transactions. To the client, this means ticketless. To the travel professional, electronic ticket transactions and ticketless air travel are two very different things. Each ...