How to open a ticket office selling tickets

Ticket offices in large cities are quite common. It may seem that to open a ticket office it is enough to just rent a small room and put a couple of computers, but in reality everything is much more complicated. The most important thing in this business is the ownership of information, the organization of access to which is difficult at times.

You will need

• - premises;

• - trained personnel;

• - safe equipment;

• - access to online booking systems

Instruction manual

1

In order to be able to sell airline tickets, you must be a subagent or agent of the airline whose tickets you want to sell. All companies have different requirements. To become an agent of a foreign company, you need to register as an accredited agent of the International Carrier Association (IATA). This association puts forward fairly stringent requirements.

2

Get the most reliable safe equipment, because all airlines put forward safety requirements that relate to the storage of special forms of the air carrier (drains). The owners of these forms check the reliability level of the safe equipment of the future customer and all the conditions for storing and filling out the forms.

3

Hire qualified personnel or arrange appropriate training followed by certification. Having good staff who have a lot of knowledge regarding air travel is also a prerequisite.

4

For admission to IATA, a deposit of $ 20 thousand is required. However, often this is not enough to become an agent of a particular airline, and you have to fulfill various additional conditions that an airline may put forward.

5

Get access to backup systems (for example, Amadeus or Gabriel), which costs about $ 40-70 per month and plus $ 40-120 for a one-time connection (depending on the operator).

6

You can become an agent of an airline only when you have experience in organizing transfers and a customer base, otherwise you simply will not cause interest in the carrier.

Useful advice

To organize a cash desk on the Internet, it is necessary to develop a special program that will be able to process a large volume of applications and be able to book in real time. There are a large number of such online agencies and you need to offer the consumer something really worthwhile, otherwise the project will not justify the effort expended on it.

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