A Second Chance for Travel Tickets!
By Re-ticket.com, PRNEMonday, July 19, 2010
AMSTERDAM, July 20, 2010 - As from this week, travelers can sell their unused travel tickets on the
first on-line travel marketplace www.re-ticket.com.
Market research shows that over 10% of the travelers do not use their
ticket for different reasons, such as sickness, unexpected exams, divorce and
so on. By offering this free of charge marketplace, Re-ticket.com provides a
unique platform to help these travelers selling their tickets to other
travelers.
Many travel agents and airline companies tell their clients that tickets
are not transferable, therefore travelers are forced to buy a new ticket.
However, about 40% of the airline tickets are transferable, even train and
bus tickets. By filling in the flight number on the website, the Re-ticket
system checks whether the ticket is transferable or not. It's as simple as
that!
Airport tax refund
Unfortunately not all airline tickets are transferable, but even for
those travelers Re-ticket.com has a cost saving solution. Via the Re-fund
service (www.re-ticket.com/en/tickets/claim-step1.html), airline
passengers are able to request a refund for the taxes and charges. Most
airlines tell their clients that their tickets are non-refundable, which
might be only half true! One of the components of a flight ticket are airport
taxes. A traveler who did not use his ticket is entitled to get a refund for
this airport tax. Re-ticket.com has been able to refund 50 USD, or even more
per ticket.
Airline companies do not inform their passengers on purpose about this,
it is a huge cash cow for them. Normally, the airline has to pay these taxes
for departure or arriving on an airport, but if the passenger is not showing
up, they keep the money for themselves. At major European airports, airlines
already earn about 50.000 USD per day with these taxes. The average passenger
is not aware of this and they do not ask for a refund. Luckily
www.re-ticket.com can help passengers with this.
www.re-ticket.com
info@re-ticket.com
Background information
Re-ticket.com is founded by 27 year old Gregor van der Made. He has been
living in Madrid as well as in Buenos Aires In 2008 he returned to Amsterdam
where he graduated summa cum laude in Economics.
With the business plan of Re-ticket.com, he won the 2008 edition of the
ABN AMRO Bank Summerschool Entrepreneurship in Amsterdam.
Gregor van der Made, g.vdmade at re-ticket.com, Paroolbuilding - CASE / 6th floor - Wibautstraat 129 - 1091 GL AMSTERDAM - the Netherlands, +31(0)6-41490909
Tags: Amsterdam, July 20, Netherlands, Re-ticket.com