Must be directly ticketed by CX - reducing TAs' business even further. I fear I'll be asked to do more direct bookings by parents and uncles and aunties in place of my TA (I can't do the navel-gazing holds they like to do with their TA though).

Wonder if there're opportunities here to ticket all the parents and uncles and aunties at E and then bid a derisory number like $1 over the minimum bid. I have no objections sending $101 bids to CX ad infinitum (but I'm not sure how happy the parents and uncles and aunties will be in PE if offer not accepted).