Originally Posted by
jbalmuth
I'm unclear about the term "admin fee". Was the entire C$600 amount the agent's commission, that could have been entirely avoided by buying the ticket directly from an airline .... or was that the total of taxes/fuel charges etc. associated with the ticket? If the latter, do you know how much (if any) of that was the agent's commission? Thanks!
IIRC, airlines stopped paying commissions several years ago. Travel agents now charge professional fees for their services. Around here, $25 for a simple domestic RT ticket is not unusual. More for complex tix.