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Home-based agents earn 44% more commission

18 JAN: Home-based retail group TravelManagers has reported a 49% increase in international air ticket sales for the year to June.

Cruise sales were up 39% and the group’s personal travel managers (PTMs) enjoyed a whopping 44% lift in commission revenue.

Tickets issued per PTM rose 13.3%, which chief executive Joe Araullo says is 34% above the national average for Australian departures (up 9.9% in the year to June).

"We attract a very high calibre of person who is highly motivated and self-driven", he says.

"We have structured our model to support this with leading technology, a strong emphasis on training and education plus on-the-ground support in each state.

"There’s no doubt our model is the way of the future, offering security to experienced travel consultants so that they can be in control of their destiny."

Mr Araullo says TravelManagers is keen to appointment its first PTM in the Territory and is looking to build on numbers in Tasmania and South Australia, in particular.

"We’d be keen to have a confidential chat with any experienced travel consultants and agency owners who are highly motivated and keen to have more autonomy and earning capacity, because we have a lot to offer them."

 
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News in Brief for 22 May

GREEK CANCELLATIONS Europe low-fare carrier Ryanair has reportedly confirmed that it will cut 82 flights a week to the Greek holiday islands of Rhodes and Kos after local authorities allegedly failed to honour a joint summer marketing campaign with the airline.

STANSTED STRIKE Baggage handlers at London’s Stansted airport plan a series of strikes from this weekend after negotiations on shift changes broke down. The 150 workers are employed by Swissport, which handles baggage for Ryanair and a number of UK holiday airlines.

AIRLINE DENIES CUTS Air France-KLM denied plans to cut 5,000 jobs by 2015 through a voluntary redundancy plan, as reported by French daily Le Figaro. "For the moment there are absolutely no negotiations about possible job cuts, these are just rumours," a spokeswoman told reporters.

MEXICAN REVIVAL? Mexicana Airlines, which suspended flights for financial reasons in August 2010, may re-launch operations next month after Spanish hotel and air transport group Med Atlantica acquired 95% of the bankrupt carrier’s shares.

THAI SACKING The board of Thai Airways is reported to have sacked the airline’s chairman, with a spokesman saying he was "unable to work in unity with the strategy committee".