Ticketing under-16s

A consultant who wished to remain
anonymous said the tax exemption
currently applied to all children under
16. While it would automatically price
in the GDS for child fares, agents
needed to insert the teenager’s age
into the name field for the exemption
to price for children between the
age of 12 and 16. The consultant
said the discount for this age group
amounted to about R1 400pp for a
return economy-class fare between
SA and the UK at the moment.
However, Bronwyn Pienaar, owner
of Travessentials advised that the tax
could unfortunately not be applied
to consortiums’ corporate fares,
even though the discounted taxes
did price in the GDS when paired
with a corporate fare. She said the
reason for this was due to the airline
corporate fare rulings, which stated
that the fares were only applicable
for adults.