Emirates Airlines ends agents’ fee
June 25, 2008 · Comments Off
By Shweta Jain
Emirates is to abolish the base (seven per cent) commission to UAE travel agents starting October this year in the face of rising fuel prices, according to a senior airline executive.
“Emirates will align itself with current market practices and move to zero per cent commission on October 1, 2008. The staggering increase in fuel prices has had an inflationary effect on all our operational costs, forcing us to revise our policy,” Majid Al Mualla, Emirates’ Vice-President for Commercial Sales (UAE), told Emirates Business.
The carrier, which is already on zero per cent commission in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan, will now instead introduce a seven per cent service fees on all Emirates revenue tickets sold at the airline’s retail outlets in the UAE.
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