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Last month, the House aviation subcommittee held a hearing on the working conditions for airline ground workers. It was the first hearing the panel has held on the subject in [...]

Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines said they are not making changes to their travel agent commissions. Hawaiian and Aloha offer flights from Hawaii to the mainland U.S. and within Hawaii. […]

In Germany, agent protests forestalled a plan by Lufthansa to replace percentage-based commissions with a fee-based system, effective Jan. 1. That would seem to mean a likely delay in similar […]

WASHINGTON -- American Trans Air, the 11th-largest passenger carrier in the U.S., matched the 60% cut in domestic commissions caps to $10 one way and $20 roundtrip. Some other smaller […]

Express hopes that agents were prepared for latest round of commission cuts Tour operators are watching the steady decline of air commissions closely, hoping that the lower compensation won't cut […]

ARLINGTON, Va. -- US Airways became the fourth U.S. airline to match the 60% reduction in domestic commission caps initiated by American. The airline also cut its pay rate for […]

WASHINGTON -- United matched first. Delta followed within an hour. Northwest did it about 24 hours after United and Delta. Thus, six days after American initiated the 60% cut in […]

Northwest Airlines reduced from $25 to $15 the fee travel agents are permitted to collect for helping a client change an airline ticket. Northwest said it altered the fee in […]

ATLANTA-- Delta's pilot ratified a new agreement, making the airline's pilots the highest paid in the industry, with pay increases ranging from 24% to 34% over the four-year life of […]

DAYTON, Ohio -- HeartLand, the proposed new airline based here, will offer agents a commission that is "competitive with major carriers," but "will rely on them heavily" to help make […]

After 7978, when the U.S. airline industry underwent deregulation, the government also deregulated the process by which airlines had collectively set the commissions they paid travel agents, introducing competition into [...]

WASHINGTON -- Airline commission cuts for U.S. agents are spreading to overseas carriers. El Salvador-based Taca is eliminating base pay May 1, and British Airways is discontinuing its 2-year-old Blue […]

CHICAGO -- Several key players in the Web booking arena spoke out against airlines for tightening commissions for on-line bookings. "The airlines are draining the pool before anyone dives in, […]

CHICAGO -- United Airlines set a $10 flat fee commission for the ticketing of bookings made on the Internet or other on-line service, including multiple tickets booked on the same […]

NEW YORK -- Retailers were distressed about commission caps put in place by Air Canada and Canadian Airlines, the first international carriers to impose pay limits, and said the caps […]

NEW YORK -- Air Canada and Canadian Airlines International capped agent pay on domestic and transborder travel for both Canadian and U.S. agencies, effective Sept. 1. Northwest said it would […]

MILLBRAE, Calif. -- In the wake of the commission caps, ASTA president Jeanne Epping said the Society and its agents must mount a public relations campaign to fight the "airlines […]

RESULTS INTENDED TO EAST GOVT. CONCERNS ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- ASTA is surveying travel agency members on how they use airline override commissions, with the hope that results with dampen the […]

ATLANTA - Delta became the second U.S. airline to disclose plans to change its agency compensation on international routes to 10%, beginning Jan. 1. The airline, however, said it would […]

United is telling its employees that it's going to take its cost-cutting campaign on the road and squeeze out some more distribution costs by cutting commissions to travel agents in […]

NORWALK, Conn. -- Virgin Vacations here reinstated its travel agent commission and travel discount program, just one year after going to zero pay along with parent airline Virgin Atlantic Airways. […]

WASHINGTON -- Some major U.S. airlines are undergoing another round of cost-cutting that could push the limits of employee tolerance and test how far airlines can go without cutting into […]

CHICAGO -- The day of reckoning is approaching for U.S. legacy airlines and their unions over defined-benefit pension plans. And by the looks of the battle already under way at […]

The cruel math of the airline commission game was brought into sharp relief again last week when Southwest went to zero, the last major U.S. airline to do so. The […]

WASHINGTON -- The Orbitz cost debate is back on again. The airline-owned travel site commissioned another consultant's report on distribution costs, which concluded that airlines spend 37% less distributing tickets […]

FORT WORTH, Texas -- American Airlines avoided a self-imposed deadline for seeking bankruptcy protection when its flight attendants, reversing an earlier vote, agreed to accept $340 million in concessions. The […]

Get More! RESULTS OF MARCH 31, 2003 Was it appropriate for Delta to give CEO Leo Mullin a $1.4 million bonus in 2002 if he indeed, as Delta said, "distinguished […]

Two very different stories came to my attention this past week that have a common thread. First, Don Carty, president and CEO of American Airlines--which lost $3.5 billion last year--did […]

* American said it reached tentative cost-cutting agreements with its unions that, combined with nonunion cuts, will save the airline $1.8 billion a year and keep it out of bankruptcy--at […]

All Nippon Airways, which has been paying U.S. agents 8% uncapped since launching U.S. service in 1986, is lowering its commission to 5% capped April 1. The cap will be […]

WASHINGTON -- Royal Air Maroc is reducing its base commission from 8% to 7% uncapped, effective Nov. 1. In a notice to agents, the airline said it made the change […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Disney Cruise Line will drop commissions on the air portion of its air/sea bookings to 5%, beginning Sept. […]

WASHINGTON -- Delta on July 1 quietly eliminated the commission it had been paying to agents who change a ticket--so quietly that Delta still won't publicly confirm what it did, […]

ATLANTA -- AirTran, taking a step that may be the first of its kind, stopped paying commission to agents for flights booked on GDSs but will pay 5% uncapped for […]

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Travel and Tourism Industry Caucus called on the federal government to investigate the airlines for eliminating base commissions to travel agents. In a […]

It is getting a lot harder to surprise or even unsettle travel agents these days, at least when it comes to airline commissions. With one exception: If there is a […]