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6523 – Airline ticket and service agents
Airline ticket and service agents issue tickets, provide fare quotations, make reservations, conduct passenger check-in, trace missing baggage, arrange for cargo shipments and perform other related customer service duties to assist airline passengers. They are employed by airline companies.
Profile
Example titles
- Airline baggage agent
- Airline cargo agent
- Airline load planner
- Airline passenger agent
- Airline reservation agent
- Airline ticket agent
- Baggage tracer - airline
- Client service representative - airline
- Counter services agent - airline
- Customer service agent - airline
- Station agent - 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.
- Weigh cargo and compute freight costs, calculate charges for services and insurance, process bills of lading, cargo manifests and other documents
- Trace lost or misdirected cargo and maintain shipping and other records.
- Reserve seats for tour companies, travel agencies, wholesalers and the general public using computerized systems
- Provide information on airline passengers and process mileage points.
- Complete pre-flight documents regarding passenger and cargo load, catering count, special requests and other flight information
- Relay operational messages to operations control and downline stations
- Perform duties of ticket, baggage and cargo agents.
- Calculate load weights for compartments of aircraft using charts and computers
- Plan load to distribute and balance cargo.
Airline passenger and ticket agents
Airline baggage agents
Airline cargo agents
Airline reservation agents
Airline station agents
Airline load planners
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Several weeks of on-the-job and classroom training are provided for all occupations in this unit group.
- Airline station agents usually require experience as a ticket, baggage or cargo agent.
- Load planners require a restricted radio operator's licence and usually require airline operations experience.
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.
Exclusions
- Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks (6524)
- Supervisors of airline sales and service agents (in 6313 Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors)
- Travel counsellors (6521)
- Airline cargo and baggage loaders (in 6721 Support occupations in accommodation, travel and facilities set-up services)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 6 – Sales and service occupations
- Skill level
- C – Occupations usually require secondary school and/or occupation-specific training.
- Major group
- 65 – Service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations
- Minor group
- 652 – Occupations in travel and accommodation
- Associated Career Handbook profiles
- 6523.1 – Airline passenger and ticket agents 6523.2 – Airline baggage agents 6523.3 – Airline cargo agents 6523.4 – Airline reservation agents 6523.5 – Airline station agents 6523.6 – Airline load planners
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