Originally Posted by
DLATL777
SO find a travel agent to do the work for you. In the amount of time it took to write this post, you could have emailed one!
You may not be aware of this, but schools (and families) have limited budgets. Back when airlines paid travel agents, I used a travel agent for all of our trips. When the airlines stopped that and travel agents started adding $25 per ticket for their services, I took over the booking myself. I can't justify charging my students $25 more for a service I can do myself, so I'll have to stick with Southwest, United, etc..
Additionally, they don't just demand that I use a travel agent. They require that it be a managed travel agency. In other words, my school would have to contract with a company that would do all of our travel and charge us a fee for managing it.