The business-to-business market is rotten.

Summary: A few days ago, a go where to spend a huge sums of money to buy 517NA rumors stirred the industry to the Aviation Brigade business-to-business platform of hot discussion. A person in the industry, who declined to be named, said the industry is generally not bullish on such a traditional business-to-business platform, and if the takeover rumours come true, where it is likely

A few days ago, rumors of where to spend a huge sums of money to buy 517NA sparked the industry's buzz about the Business-to-business platform. One industry insider, who declined to be named, said the industry is generally not bullish on such a traditional business-to-business platform, and if the takeover rumours come true, it's likely to be a big game next.

"The business-to-business market is rotten."

"In recent years, the business-to-business market of traditional airlines has been declining. The industry insiders said. About 10 years ago, when E-commerce was emerging, airlines and agents were looking for more market opportunities to build a business-to-business platform nuggets. Agent's Business-to-business platform is mainly in the first level agent and two agents or even three agents to do air ticket wholesale, soon gathered a number of online agent resources. Small agent in a relatively short period of time to expand the scale, the completion of the airline sales task and proportion in order to obtain better agency policy, and through the platform to get more favorable than the airline policy, the agent's profit has been improved.

With the intensification of market competition, agents in order to obtain better agent policy and return point, the completion of the mandate of the airlines and the proportion, often on the business-to-business platform to carry out a fierce "return point" bid, forming a disorderly vicious competition. It is understood that in the country a number of large ticket "platform", "All Back", "super return" agency fees are already a common phenomenon. This has led to a growing number of profit-seeking agents on traditional business-to-business platforms, even including unqualified "black agent", formal agents have to join the "full back", "super return" the ranks of agency fees, the overall agent industry service level down, the market chaos, high risk, there are "black agent" purchase ticket after Low cabin "cheat passenger, was complained of or even canceled the ticket point qualification."

These traditional business-to-business platforms do not directly face the consumer, but in the same trade between the "two-way", competing for profits, almost do not care about the interests of tourists. Because the travel agents are often not in a city, so the rules of the Business-to-business platform is upstream agents do not provide travel orders, through these platforms to sell tickets, and eventually to the hands of the passengers often appear false itinerary. In addition, the upstream and downstream agents of some irregularities, often lead to passenger tickets in flight Take-off, delay prompt, refund change, mileage points and so on are not the due service, there are problems, do not know who to find.

If you stand in the air services, civil aviation, airlines and other aspects of the position, traditional air travel business platform is basically set a variety of illegal practices in one, such as the operating beyond the scope of the ticket sales, unauthorized link in the navigation letter fixed seat configuration, the use of unfair competition means to encourage the agency enterprises "full return", "excess" agent costs; give " Second-level agent "," three-level agent "to provide convenient conditions for the sale of tickets, the indulgence of false electronic ticket itinerary, ignoring the interests of consumers, to the ultimate passenger ticket to bring great risks and so on. "The market is rotten and it doesn't feel good anymore," he said. ”