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Air France and KLM have further postponed the introduction of its GDS surcharge for business travel agencies, with the fee now due to be levied from 1 July 2024 rather than 1 January 2024, according to reports in French trade press.
The TMC surcharge, which already applies to leisure travel agencies, was initially scheduled to be introduced in September, 2022. This was then postponed until 31 March 2023 and then again until 1 January 2024.
Introduced to help drive NDC adoption, the fee has also gradually increased from €13 per GDS-booked segment, to €17 and is now expected to be €21.
Laurent Abitbol, chairman of French travel agency group Marietton Développement – whose brands include TMCs Ailleurs Business and Havas Voyages – made the announcement during the recent Selectour congress, where he thanked Air France for having “guaranteed revenues (of the network)”, according to a report by Déplacements Pros.
Henri Hourcade, SVP France at Air France-KLM, then confirmed the news at the congress and said “all French TMCs benefit from it”.
In June, the carriers removed short and medium-haul “Light” fares from traditional GDS channels. These fares are now only available via NDC connections.
BTN Europe has approached Air France-KLM for comment.
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