{"id":245498,"date":"2004-07-05T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/07\/travel-agents-set-for-bahamasair-showdown"},"modified":"2004-07-05T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T17:00:33","slug":"travel-agents-set-for-bahamasair-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/07\/travel-agents-set-for-bahamasair-showdown","title":{"rendered":"Travel Agents Set For Bahamasair Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Travel agents who are boycotting Bahamasair tickets are preparing for a showdown with the airline&#8217;s bosses tomorrow.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The agents said yesterday they anxiously await a meeting with Bahamasair chairman Basil Sands and other government officials to discuss the airline&#8217;s move to reduce commissions for Bahamian agents but not their Florida counterparts.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>They have described the decision as an &#8221;insult&#8221;.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Managing director of Bahamasair, Paul Major, told <i>The Tribune<\/i> yesterdasy that they were discussing the situation as he spoke and that Mr Sands had invited agents to a meeting tomorrow to resolve the problem.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Also, in a press release on Saturday, Mr Major reminded the public that only some travel agencies were engaging in the boycott of Bahamasair tickets.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In the press release, Mr Major also said some travel agents were telling customers they were being prevented from selling Bahamasair&#8217;s tickets and that Bahamasair flights were not available, but they could book them on another airline.<\/p>\n<p><P>Mr Major said he would like to remind the travelling public that they can simplify their ticket purchases by going on to Bahamasair.com, Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, or other travel websites. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>Source: Darnell Dorsette, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets boycott prompts meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}