Currently, tickets can be purchased at any office of the airline or tour operator. Here you can choose the best option for you in terms of time and price. But how do you start selling tickets yourself?
It is necessary
- - business plan;
- - premises;
- - license;
- - a computer.
Instructions
Step 1
Become an agent of the airline you want to sell tickets. All companies have their own requirements. In order to get the position of an agent of a foreign company, you will need registration as a representative of the International Association of Carriers.
Step 2
Get access to world reservation systems (Siren, Star, Galileo, Gabriel, Amadeus). You can connect on a one-time or permanent basis. Such systems have the ability to book seats for absolutely any flights to anywhere in the world.
Step 3
Sign a sub-agency agreement if the travel agency does not allow you to register several large air carriers at once. This can be done only with the permission of the company and on the terms established by it. Although these requirements are no longer as severe as the agency ones.
Step 4
Try to practice selling tickets online. There are enough online agencies nowadays that you will need to "stand out from the crowd." So some of these agencies book air tickets for all types of airlines, hotels, rental transport through the worldwide network. They have a specially developed program that allows them to process a huge number of applications and make reservations in real time (they immediately inform about the ticket price and availability).
Step 5
The system of selling tickets via the Internet allows you to save money by booking a ticket without intermediaries and time, having issued a simple form and fast delivery of a ticket by courier, provides freedom of choice (dozens of types of flights and special offers). Also, this system provides the receipt of a ticket not only by courier, but also by the passenger himself, at the airport or in any city in Russia (even a small one). But such services will cost according to separate tariffs.
