Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Travel agency in Johannesburg, South AfricaEarlier 2017, International Airlines Group (IAG), parent company of British Airways and Iberia, announced it would add a US$10 `distribution technology charge (also called the GDS surcharge) on each airline fare component booked with these 2 carriers, effective 1 November 2017.A fare component is typically each segment of a ticket. A round-trip ticket of NYC-LON-NYC; would equate to two fare components of NYC-LON and LON-NYC, thus incurring a technology charge of $20.CWT has reached an agreement with IAG to avoid the distribution technology charge on bookings made through all three global distribution systems (GDS): Amadeus (as of 1 November), Sabre (to be confirmed) and Travelport which includes Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan (as of 1 December).