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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

Core competencies

  • Social Perceptiveness to navigate interactions more effectively, ensuring respect for and accommodation of different customs, preferences and communication styles
  • Persuading to offer passengers additional services for disruptions or issues to maintain passenger satisfaction, such as seat upgrades, travel insurance or priority boarding
  • Speech Recognition to ensure agents catch every detail, reducing the chance of errors in reservations, ticketing or baggage handling
  • Verbal Ability and Speech Clarity to give passengers detailed instructions about check-in procedures, baggage policies, boarding times or flight changes
  • Collaboration to work closely with various teams, such as flight crew, baggage handlers and security personnel
  • Knowledge in Clerical to ensure various types of documentation are processed accurately and efficiently, including ticketing, boarding passes, baggage claims and reservation records

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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