New fees will begin May 12
LATAM Airlines, the South American carrier, will begin levying varying surcharges based on the GDS channel that travel advisors use. The airline currently assesses a surcharge of $13 per segment for GDS bookings made with legacy technology. However, beginning May 12, the fee will increase to $15.96 for North American bookings made through Amadeus and $14.19 for Sabre. For bookings made via Travelport, the surcharge will decrease to $11 per segment.
A different charge will apply depending on the GDS used, with the goal of recovering the cost for each booking, the airline wrote in an update.
LATAM went live with NDC bookings via Sabre in February. It has NDC agreements with Amadeus and Travelport with launch dates to be determined. LATAM will apply a surcharge for many NDC bookings; as with legacy bookings, the airline is aligning the amount with its costs.
With Sabre’s NDC bookings, there is no surcharge for bookings of basic fare brands, but bookings of all other fares incur a fee of $4 per segment. Surcharges for Amadeus NDC bookings will be $3 for domestic segments and $6 for international ones. For Travelport NDC bookings, LATAM won’t assess a surcharge for bookings of the lowest-price-available fare class on a route. Other bookings will be assessed at $2.50 per segment.
