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Airline Sales and Service Agents

(NOC 6523)
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Career Description

Airline ticket and service agents issue tickets, provide fare quotations, make reservations, conduct passenger check-in, trace missing baggage, arrange for cargo shipments and perform other related customer service duties to assist airline passengers.

Duties May Include


  • Airline passenger and ticket agents
  • Help customers plan travel time and routes, prepare and issue tickets, assign seats, prepare boarding passes, check baggage, attend boarding gates
  • Assist pre-boarding passengers and provide information on fares and flight schedules and routes.
  • Airline baggage agents
  • Trace lost, delayed or misdirected baggage for customers.
  • Airline cargo agents
  • Weigh cargo and compute freight costs, calculate charges for services and insurance, process bills of lading, cargo manifests and other documents
  • Trace lost or misdirected cargo and maintain shipping and other records.
  • Airline reservation agents
  • Reserve seats for tour companies, travel agencies, wholesalers and the general public using computerized systems
  • Provide information on airline passengers and process mileage points.
  • Airline station agents
  • Complete pre-flight documents regarding passenger and cargo load, catering count, special requests and other flight information
  • Relay operational messages to operations control and downline stations
  • Perform duties of ticket, baggage and cargo agents.
  • Airline load planners
  • Calculate load weights for compartments of aircraft using charts and computers
  • Plan load to distribute and balance cargo.

Examples of Titles

Airline baggage agent
Client service representative - airline
Passenger agent, airline

Here are some schools that have programs related to this career:

Durham College
Oshawa, Ontario, CA

Related Program(s):
Tourism – Destination Marketing Diploma; Co-op
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Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, CA

Related Program(s):
Tourism Studies Bachelor; Honours
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Algonquin College
Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Related Program(s):
Tourism - Travel Services Diploma
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Cornerstone Community College
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Related Program(s):
Hospitality Management Diploma; Co-op; Online; Distance
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CDI College (Calgary City Centre Campus)
Calgary, Alberta, CA

Related Program(s):
Travel and Tourism Diploma
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Modified on January 26, 2022