Air France-KLM will extend its surcharge of 13 euros per one-way ticket this spring to corporate bookings when they are not enabled via NDC.
As part of that process, the airline group will do away with private-channel arrangements that allowed some corporate travel agencies to avoid the surcharge on legacy GDS bookings.
The move, which the airline group confirmed to Travel Weekly, was originally reported in France and was later reported by The Beat, a Travel Weekly sister publication.
“There is no 26 euro surcharge if you are on NDC. The surcharge will only be activated when the agency remains in the traditional GDS environment,” Air France-KLM spokeswoman Helen Ames said.
Air France-KLM first implemented a GDS surcharge of 11…