Originally Posted by
daniellam
If you walk into a travel agency in Asia, the travel agents are more likely to refer to a binder on their desk with a bunch of fare sheets (or look at PDF files such as the one above) as opposed to the GDS (unless they have them programmed in as "private fares") when you want to ask them for a fare quote.
Wow, this is so ... 1990s. All we need is hand written tickets with the red carbon copy and the picture is complete.
Originally Posted by
daniellam
all the market fares ex-Canada / ex-US are distributed in the GDS
Ah, so out there CX has seen the ... present!
Originally Posted by
daniellam
(except fares targeted to and viewable only to travel agents who serve certain ethnic communities).
Hmmm... this is interesting. Any idea if these "targeted" fares include J-cabin fares, and, if so, which travel agents in San Francisco (where there's a sizeable community of people originally from the Pearl River delta area and 2 daily CX flights, soon to be 3) might have access to them?