Airlines flout high court order: Travel agents to meet civil minister

Mumbai: 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.
18/06/11 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2011, Indian Aviation- In General Jun 2011