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64312.01 – Airline passenger, baggage and ticket agents

Airline passenger, baggage and ticket agents issue tickets, provide fare quotations, make reservations, conduct passenger check-in, trace missing baggage, arrange for cargo shipments and provide related customer services to assist airline passengers.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Airline baggage agent
  • Airline passenger agent
  • Airline ticket agent
  • Client service representative - airline

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Help customers plan travel time and routes, prepare and issue tickets, assign seats, prepare boarding passes, check baggage, attend boarding gates
  • Assist pre-boarding passengers and provide information on fares and flight schedules and routes
  • Trace lost, delayed or misdirected baggage for customers.

Additional information

  • Depending on the size of the airline or airport, the duties of workers in this unit group may overlap.
  • Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors (62022)
  • Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks (64313)
  • Travel counsellors (64310)
  • Baggage handler (in 65210.03 Facilities workers)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

6 – Sales and service occupations

TEER

4 – Occupations usually require a secondary school diploma; or several weeks of on-the-job training

Major group

64 – Sales and service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations

Sub-major group

643 – Occupations in food, accommodation and tourism

Minor group

6431 – Occupations in travel and accommodation

Unit group

64312 – Airline ticket and service agents

Occupational profile

64312.01 – Airline passenger, baggage and ticket agents

O*NET in-it

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