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APG Association Appoints SKY International Aviation Services As Its India Member
SKY International Aviation Services, Mumbai has been inducted
as the country member for India of the APG Association, the world's leading
network of businesses specialising in the travel industry representation and
services. Headquartered in Paris, APG Association has 52 members globally covering
64 countries. Founded in September 1991, after the first Gulf war, with only
five members, APG Association has grown to become world's leading network of
businesses specialising in airline representation and airline services. APG
Association, which offers the most modern distribution model in existence and
constantly keeps pace with the latest innovations in the airline industry has
a policy to appoint only one member per country or BSP area. This move is to
ensure the best possible sales coverage for those airlines represented and the
highest possible level of professional practice. SKY International Aviation
Services is headed by Kiran Yadav, former regional manager, South Asia for IATA
for a decade. Yadav has also been nominated on the Board of Directors Business
Area of APG Association.
The APG Association's objectives are manifold: to become an essential link in
the airline distribution system, to be identified as a "quasi airline"
with its own accounting code, to base all APG Association member's activities
on IATA standards, to be capable of offering smaller regular airlines the same
services as those enjoyed by larger legacy carriers. It also aims to provide
neutral ticketing facilities for client airlines and endeavours to improve the
basis of the GSA relationship between airline representative companies and the
airlines they represent.
APG Association offers two types of membership: The Regular Membership, which
is open to GSA's active organisations but restricted only to one member per
country or BSP area; and allied membership open to organisations, individuals
and bodies likely to benefit from the global reach of the Association and bring
value to the industry. The unique benefit that APG Association offers to its
members is the IATA IBCS. The IATA Distribution and Financial Services (IDFS)
in co-operation with APG Association has developed the IATA BSP consolidator
system (IBCS) to allow schedule airlines including non-IATA, BSP members at
variable cost, "Pay as you Earn" basis. IBCS BSP participants pay
a onetime initial joining fee per BSP of US$ 1,000 and a yearly annual renewal
fee of US$ 500 irrespectively of how many BSPs they have joined. The participant
has to pay three per cent of his net monthly BSP sales for APG services on a
variable cost basis. He has to also pay a transaction fee of US$ 2.50 per transaction.
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