Like many here - I travel a lot on Company business and we have to use our "generally useless" appointed travel agent (whom I am certain are on the make).

By way of example - my Middle East based travel company sees this when booking IST - LHR

If booked in the UAE (Point of sale)

BA 675 0 IST 21/04/23 8:25 LHR 21/04/23 10:40 32A Daily
J9 C6 D0 R0 I0 Y8 B0 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 N0 O0 Q0 S0 G0

UK Point of sale

BA 675 0 IST 21/04/23 8:25 LHR 21/04/23 10:40 32A Daily
J9 C9 D9 R0 I0 Y8 B6 H3 K1 M0 L0 V0 N0 O0 Q0 S0 G0

They of course are wanting to book me a Full Fare (Y) ticket at double the cost of a UK PoS ticket booked in (K)

They claim their "systems" dont allow them to do this but it is simple to do by going to ba's website in the UK or Expedia or any other manner of sites.

Most companies/agents seem not to care about saving cash on their travel budgets by knowing how to book and even if they know they can save it is in the "too difficult bucket" to try and sort out.

Anyone have similar experiences or have managed to "educate" their TA to save them money or is it some impossibility that an "offical TA" can only buy tickets that have a PoS in the Country they are located in