If your company has staff that travels you find that you are always choosing between having them waste their time doing reservations or hiring a travel agent to do it for them. If you use a travel agent you are probably aware that they work from computers that are tied in with major airlines and hotel chains; they won't waste their time searching for discounted air fares, hotel or car deals for you.
The result is that you wind up paying the travel agent a fee while overpaying for your travel and hotel expenses. If you allow your people to book for themselves you can be certain of two things: they are wasting their time doing something that could best be done by someone else and they are not booking the most cost effective airlines, hotels and cars because to do so takes much more time and effort than they should be spending on this chore.
The result is that you wind up paying the travel agent a fee while overpaying for your travel and hotel expenses. If you allow your people to book for themselves you can be certain of two things: they are wasting their time doing something that could best be done by someone else and they are not booking the most cost effective airlines, hotels and cars because to do so takes much more time and effort than they should be spending on this chore.
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Why shouldn't we just use a regular travel agent? Most travel agents today specialize in Cruises and Vacation Packages where they benefit from large commissions paid by the resorts and cruise lines. There was a time when regular travel agents made a good living from business accounts. Airlines used to pay them 10% of the ticket cost as a fee.
What's up with car rentals? It used to be that renting a car was the least expensive item on a business trip. At some airports that catered to local tourism the rates were so low that it seemed you could rent a car and use it for years for less than it cost to buy one. Lately, it seems like you are buying the car every time you rent one.
Here they come again. Be prepared for the upcoming assault on your carry on luggage that the airlines are now planning (and a few have already initiated).
If they can think of a reason to charge you for something, chances are they are going to and since nobody seems to be boycotting those carriers that have started to charge for checked baggage, it would follow that airline execs would be derelict in duty should they fail to take the logical next step of limiting the size and weight of carry on bags.
If they can think of a reason to charge you for something, chances are they are going to and since nobody seems to be boycotting those carriers that have started to charge for checked baggage, it would follow that airline execs would be derelict in duty should they fail to take the logical next step of limiting the size and weight of carry on bags.
Airline executives must stay awake at night thinking up new ways to make air travel less appealing to everyone. Every business traveler is aware of the state of the economy, the price of oil and all the other pressures that every business (not just airlines) operate under today. They also know that airlines, with their sensitivity to the market price of fuel, are subject to these spiraling costs even more than most other industries.
Anyone who relies upon air transport in the performance of their job already knows how much more difficult, and expensive, it has become to get from point A to point B in the past few years. Most recently we have witnessed the introduction of all manner of incidental charges for virtually everything that was once included in the price of a ticket.
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