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The Problem Flight Centre Is Having With Flights

Matthew Parsons

Photo Credit: Flight Centre's stores are being impacted by "abnormally high" airfares. Flight Centre

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The global tourism recovery is starting, but the Australian travel agency that came to be 40 years ago on airline bookings feels left out, being stuck with carriers reducing their commissions and a population still reluctant to book overseas vacations like they did in 2019.

Australia’s Flight Centre Travel Group has a few issues with airlines at the moment. They’re lowering the commission they pay to travel agencies. Revenue margins during the four months to October 31 was “adversely impacted by reduced front-end commission payments from some airlines in Australia and New Zealand from July 1,” said managing director Graham Turner at the company’s annual general meeting on November 14. As a result, it's securing better arrangements with "those carriers who are keen to work closely with us during the recovery phase," he added in a tradi

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