45 airlines are not authorized to increase fares during spring festival

45 routes to increase fares to the hardest hit areas

Some people in the civil aviation industry think that the agents have no right to increase fares;

Guangzhou fly Sanya, January 30 economy class, the fare is 2600 yuan, ticket prices have exceeded the full price of the airline 225%; while Beijing flew Chengdu, January 29 economy class, the fare is 4440 yuan, exceeding the full price of the airlines 208%; Shanghai Fly Wuhan, January 30 economy class, the fare is 1905 Yuan, Exceed the full price of the airline 114% ...

Homesickness, in fact, is a small ticket, I am here, home in that head. However, this is a small ticket, in some routes already expensive very outrageous.

Recently, the "Daily economic news" dispatched a multi-channel reporter, lasted 7 days, the Spring Festival during the 86 Non-stop flight ticket price survey. Reporter found that there are 45 routes were significantly increased by agents, including: Guangzhou set out, 13 routes to increase sales! BEIJING, 9 routes increase! Shanghai, 9 fare increase! Hangzhou, 8! Chengdu, 6!

In addition, because some of the hot routes economy class ticket has long been robbed and empty, passengers can only buy high-priced tickets, and fare increases are more flights, large area, high range of three major characteristics.

Some agents are more aggressive

The survey covers 86 popular tourism and returning routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Hangzhou. The daily economic news reporter from January 10 to January 16, during the peak period of the Spring Festival, that is, January 29 (29), January 30 (New Year's Eve) and January 31 (lunar) 3 days of the route, found that up to 45 routes have varying degrees of increase, and every day The phenomenon of fare increase is widespread. The January 13 survey found that all 14 flights from Shanghai to Sanya on January 31 had their toll increases.

In the major tourist destinations, from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other destinations to Haikou, Sanya, Kunming and Lijiang and other tourist hot cities have high ticket for sale, of which, Haikou and Sanya high ticket prices are the most serious. Return routes, Shanghai to Wuhan, the route is to Shanghai as the origin of the largest fare increase. January 29 and January 30 two days, where are you going? Online a "Navigable world" agents, the Eastern Airlines MU2642 flight economic class ticket price to 1905 Yuan, the price of the quotation is as high as 114%, equivalent to the full price on the basis of an additional 1015 yuan, and the prices are not included in any additional services Bare ticket prices.

There are 45 routes with a fare increase, a few plus hundreds of, and thousands more. Among them, the reporter found in the early morning of January 15, January 29 from Beijing to Chengdu, Southern Airlines CZ6161 flights, full price of 1440 yuan, and agents quote up to 4440 yuan.

Where are we going? Online data show that in Guangzhou to Nanchang flights, the January 30 fare increase is most obvious. Hainan Airlines HU7343 As an example, click the booking button, the page shows a number of agents to give the price of all higher than 730 yuan in the economy, 12 agents all fare increases, including the most "many" agents for the Xinhai Business Network, the agent directly to the price of 1930 yuan, The Next button shows the scheduled state. When the reporter points in, the center of the screen jump out of a pop-up window, prompted "You are buying special ticket products, sales price is much higher than the nominal price (full prices)." On the order page, there is also a statement: "This ticket for the application of the Economy class ticket (please do not repeat the order), if you need to claim the actual itinerary price will be lower than the pay price, the difference open air service receipts." If the flight changes all back, the difference is not back ...

Industry: Agents do not have the right to increase

For journalists to investigate the increase in the phenomenon, the civil aviation industry pointed out that, in general, air ticket agents and airlines will sign two-way agreement, agents for airlines to sell air tickets, profits from the airline's purchase price and nominal price between the agent commission, agents do not have the right to increase the price on par.

For ticket agents over the full price ticket to increase ticket sales behavior, a number of lawyers to the daily economic news reporter said that, in addition to violating the relevant provisions of the Civil Aviation Authority, but also violated the "Price law" and other relevant laws, price authorities have the right to investigate the illegal prices, and fines, liquidation and other penalties, The agent undertakes the corresponding administrative responsibility.

For the relevant website to be issued before the purchase of products such as: You are shopping for special ticket products, sales price is higher than the nominal price (economic Class) and "This ticket for economy class, reimbursement customers please note that the par price below the pay price, if the refund, do not provide itinerary, do not provide invoices, to be reimbursed passengers please carefully purchase, Order generation and payment means that you have agreed to this ticket "and other disclaimers, a number of lawyers have pointed out that the above-sale behavior has violated laws such as the price law and the Consumer Protection Act, and therefore, the above prompts cannot change the consequences of the law and can not be exempted. In accordance with the provisions of article 52nd (v) of the contract law, the contract which violates the mandatory provisions of the laws and administrative regulations is invalid.

Agent channel out of the vote accounted for up to 90%

From the current air ticket sales channels, mainly divided into three categories, the first category is the airline direct, the second category is the agent BSP out of the ticket, the third category is the airlines through the agent of business-to-business sales. The latter two are all agents of distribution. UBS Securities Research report shows that the current domestic airlines through agents to sell tickets accounted for about 90%, the direct ratio of 10%.

In 2012, the market share of online air tickets was about 21.2% per cent in the entire ticket market, according to Iris. In this survey, in addition to the study of sampling to sell low-cost tickets to where the network, but also China OTA (online business travel) The field of old-style (41.15, 0.81, 2.01%), New Jin tourism platform Taobao travel into the scope of investigation. Ctrip in the ticket market occupies 14.6% of the share, and Taobao travel relies on Taobao and Alipay huge number of registered users, is rising. In addition, Teng Bang International (300178,SZ) 's online travel site has also become the subject of the Reporter survey sample.

As a benchmark, the reporter selected by the Air Transport Association and China Airlines Joint xintianyou, the site in addition to providing ticket verification services, but also real-time capture the airline official website ticket prices, and constantly updated. The reporter also through the relevant airline official website data, telephone interview Consulting Airlines and discounted ticket prices, in order to ensure that the economy class full price accuracy of ticket prices.

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In the time and scope of the survey sampling, on several sites sampled by reporters, only to find where to go to the net there is a fare increase, but can not guarantee that other sites or the above sites in other times whether there is a similar situation.