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Airfares consultant

C&M Travel Recruitment
Posted a month ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Chester, Cheshire CH4 9DL, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A new opportunity is available for a Flights Travel Consultant, offering a work-from-home or hybrid option in the North West UK area.
  • The ideal candidate should have at least 2 years of experience in a flight reservations or tour operator role, with strong fares knowledge and proficiency in a major GDS such as Amadeus, Galileo, or Sabre.
  • Responsibilities include dealing with travel agents, selling itineraries, assisting with group inquiries, and handling customer service issues related to ticketing.
  • The salary for this position ranges from £25,000 to £27,000 per year, with an average OTE of around £7,000+ based on experience and uncapped commissions.
  • Additional benefits include a pension contribution, private healthcare, and staff concessions, with working hours from Monday to Friday and one Saturday shift every four weeks.

Flights Travel consultant:We currently have a new opportunity to work from Home or hybrid in the North west uk area, as an Airfares Consultant for a tour operator. Ideally from a flights reservations or flights tour operator background we are seeking someone with excellent Fares experience on a major GDS - either Amadeus , Galileo or Sabre alongside some knowledge of the ticketing process too.As a Flights Travel Consultant you will have:

  • Experience from a flight brokers or tour operator flights department, a travel agent or travel agency, where you have had to book schedule fares and deal with ticketing or from a Business Travel background or ticketing team perhaps.
  • Excellent fares knowledge
  • Experience using the GDS Amadeus or Galileo or Sabre ( extra points for all 3 )
  • A good understanding of the Ticketing process / fares

The role of the Airfares Travel Consultant will involve: -

  • Dealing with Travel Agents, tour operators or similar via telephone and e-mail
  • Selling Round the World and multi-sector itineraries
  • Assisting with group enquires from customers
  • Assisting with customer service and pre-departure enquires to include reissues and refunds
  • Issuing schedule Airline tickets

Other info:

  • In return you will expect to earn a salary of £25-27k a year with an average OTE of around £7000+ depending on experience
  • Commissions are made on mark ups and are uncapped so could in fact earn much more
  • Working Mon - Fri 9am - 5.30pm or 9.30am - 6pm and 1 in 4 Saturdays 10am - 4pm with a day off in the week when worked
  • Excellent benefits to include Pension contribution, Private healthcare and staff concessions

Interested? To apply for this Airfares Travel consultant role, please e-mail your up to date CV to apply below or call Kelly on quoting ref : 59289

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.