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- From: srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson)
- Subject: Re: Airline Consolidators (WAS: Prodigy...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.173509.13888@erenj.com>
- Keywords: Travel, Consolidators
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- Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
- References: <aa.721410398@hela.iti.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:35:09 GMT
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- In article <aa.721410398@hela.iti.org>, aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana) writes:
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- |>
- |> A phone call to a consolidator/bucket house is more educative as to
- |> the true margins that regular travel agencies make: list prices on
- |> Eaasy Sabre are higher than what you can get from travel agents;
- |> travel agent prices are higher than those of consolidators.
- |>
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- How would I go about finding consolidators? Are they in the yellow pages?
- I haven't been able to find anything, where do I look?
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- I'm unfamiliar with them, but it obviously sounds like firms who collect
- blocks of tickets on planes for a bulk discount, and then pass the discount
- on to consumers. How's their selection of flights? Do they wait till they've
- got demand and then book for optimal discount all the time, or is the
- discount more related to how many folks happen to want to book that flight?
-
- Thanks very much.
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