Consolidators are companies that sell airline tickets at unpublished fares they negotiate with the airlines. Most sell only to retail travel agencies for resale to the public. Consolidators do not “buy in bulk”, but contract with airlines for access to seats in inventories designated specifically for consolidators, and purchase the …

Every airline ticket is “validated” on one carrier, regardless of how many carriers are included in the reservation. The validating carrier is the one who collects the money for the ticket and then portions it out to the other included carriers. Typically, the validating carrier is the first one on …

ZP is the code for “Passenger Segment Fee”. This is a fee, currently $4.00, on each segment of your flight. There is no cap on the number of segments that can be taxed. Several years ago, the feds lowered the excise tax on airline tickets from 10% to 7.5% and …