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Old Nov 6, 2002 | 12:33 am
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Travel agents are not independent merchants either in the legal sense or a practical sense when it comes to selling airline tickets. The inventory and price are totally controlled by the airlines. Travel agents are exactly what the term says, agents of the airlines when it comes to selling tickets, not independent merchants. It is the airlines that are selling the tickets and travel agents are merely one vehicle by which that is accomplished.
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