To all my Valued Accounts:
As you may, or may not know, all US and Canadian
airlines have reduced their reimbursements to US & Canadian agencies to zero.
This represents a massive decrease in our source of income. In order to stay in
business I have to inform you that our fee structure and schedule will change effective
11 SEP 2006.
The Travel Agency community regards this drop
of agency commissions as an insult to the relationship we have between ourselves
and the airlines concerned. They have shifted the burden of payment for their services
onto the traveling public and corporations, whatever size. This has to be seen as
an indirect fare increase by the general public.
From this point, we do not work for the airlines;
we work for YOU, our Customer. We intend to become very pro active in becoming a
voice protecting your rights as a traveler. We promise to help you enforce your
rights and expectations of service from whatever source of transportation you choose
to take. In return, we ask that you keep a note of names and situations in which
you received poor service and / or lack of transportation.
We will introduce a lawyer-style fee of service
with a time card system backed up by "trax-time" software. This will enable you
to departmentalize billing increments, so you may effectively understand what you
are paying for and on what trip. Each week as the service fees are assessed, you
will also be presented with a statement of account and the savings enjoyed over
that time period. We feel this to be fair as tickets which take 2 minutes to create
and issue should not incur the same amount of charge as, for example, an in depth
round the world trip.
FedEx and courier charges are a large expense.
All airline tickets will be issued as electronic tickets wherever possible. When
paper tickets are required then they will be sent via registered means. The customer
will be responsible for paying this heavily reduced rate.
Please feel free to contact me with questions
and concerns you may have regarding the new payment schedule. As always you can
be assured of:
Many thanks for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Stuart J. Rice.
Fee Schedule effective 01 APR 08.
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Minimum Service Charge per Invoice
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$20.00
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Service Charge
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$100 per hour billed in 1 minute increments
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Out of Hours Emergency Call
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$200 plus applicable service charges
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International Paper Tickets
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Additional cost of delivery per Customer’s
choice in addition to airline imposed fees.
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