Airport Ticket Prices

Hello, as a Carrier worker I also approve - this is simply not real. The sale of a ticket via a physically located place with a single operator is costly - far more than buying a ticket via on-line or other fully or partly automatic procedures. Secondly, at the airport all these people ( whether directly employed or contracted) are "operationally" focussed and not supportive - before or after the trip.

Yes, most airport sites and employees can (have the skill/knowledge) start selling and issuing a new ticket from scratch - but that's not what airlines want their airport personnel to do, so they don't adjust their operations personnel schedules that way, nor do they distribute manpower. For example, I know that AirAsia's non-management employees cannot provide sales/exhibition ticketing with any kind of on-line tariff if it is offered at the airport's face-to-face ticket counter.

Today, little is done at the airport except for check-in prior to flight control, boarding/loading procedures and the necessary documents and reconciliations for departing later. It is a little simpler for the in-bound area, only the connection between duty and entry, the handling of the arrivals documents and all problems with the arrivals baggage/freight. Airline companies simply do not want to carry out personal ticket sales any more - and they are not encouraged to do so through promotional tariffs.

Now there may be a few small, small excepts -- think ultra-small inland carrier only in parts of Africa or Central/South America, but I guess outside that, you're not going to find any carrier of either magnitude or area doing so.

Local airport clerks blow up the airline's ticket prices.

The HIGHFILL -- Line agents came to Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport board meet Wednesday to complaining about gate charges and got an early about their high ticket prices. For about five years American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines have been arguing with airport personnel about airport taxes and tariffs.

Allegiant Air was given a better offer by XNA and demanded a competitive environment. The basic stance of the US Aviation Administration is that the question of fares and tariffs is best resolved at the community scale by means of agreements between airport operators and airport operators. FAA has adopted a Declaration of Principles on the airport charge norms to be applied to the technical use of the airport to guide owners and passengers, promote face-to-face negotiations between these interested persons, minimise the need for government interference to settle disagreements, and set the norms that the Division will follow when resolving airport charge disagreements. Right to your mail.

Art Morris, a member of the executive committee, had another proposal and told the airlines that they must lower their fares to adjust fares at other regional airfields so that passengers from Northwest Arkansas do not have to travel to Dallas or Tulsa, Okla. to get cheap tickets. "That'?s the bull in the room," supported executive Blake Woolsey.

Stan Green, member of the executive committee, said to the company's agents that it does not charge them more to leave Northwest Arkansas than other airfields, but the ticket price is much higher. "Allen said that if major corporations like Walmart resist ticket prices, carriers might consider reducing them. Phillip Taldo, also a member of the executive committee, said that XNA is not in business to make a living, but to offer a much-needed level of services to Northwest Arkansas people, even those who do not come on corporate trips.

Then Taldo drew on his mobile a $341 ticket offer from Americans for a round-trip ticket to Washington, D.C., from Northwest Arkansas and a $72 return offer from another carrier that flies from Tulsa. "Scott Van Laningham, managing general manager of the airport, said he was sick and tired of arguing about the charges that the airport has paid $500,000 for lawyers, advisers, travelling, time, all without real results.

" Mr Van Laningham said that the meat from the old airline companies is not so much about the fees they are billed but about the amount paid by Allgiant. Allergiant is less billed because it operates about 10 weekly departures and is accommodated in the old concourse B, while the old carriers each have more than 120 weekly departures and are accommodated in the newer and much more beautiful convention A. More departures also mean more passenger and more abrasion, he said.

"You were against the Allegiant transaction from the start," Van Laningham said.