BA delays abolition of commission
3 April 2012
Business travel purchasers have welcomed the decision by British Airways to postpone the abolition of commission payments to travel agents by three months, until 1 April 2001.
The airline said that more time is needed for everyone in the travel supply chain to accustom themselves to the radically new scheme, originally scheduled to start next January.
“There are one or two things to be sorted out, but none of them is insurmountable,” said BA’s Tiffany Hall, general manager of sales for the UK...