Re: Fwd: Public Good vs Private Benefit

[bhagya travels]

Dear Friends

This is not achievement of TAAI & TAFI we are all facing Weekly payment/Zero Commission & Web Fare etc.etc etc...................

Already the agents are under Insurance scheme this only benefit of Associations not for single agents.

Mr Sunil & Mr Zakir as gone to US for Joint Bank Guarantee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  that means no priority for Commission & Weekly payment given by this associations However they have gone in others money it is not achievement to the Agents

Let us think do some thing useful for the benefits of the Agents not for the Associations

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On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 4:51 PM, Travel Agent Fraternity <totravelage...@gmail.com> wrote:

----- Original Message -----

From: Travel Agent

To: Travel Agent

Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 6:02 PM

Subject: Public Good vs Private Benefit

 

Congratulations to TAAI & TAFI and in particular to the Acting President of TAAI, who has successfully argued for the re-implementation of the Joint Bank Guarantee.

The Acting President of TAAI, has taken a lot of pain to explain, how this has been achieved and how the APJC members (TAAI & TAFI representatives) have successfully persuaded the Airlines to accept the Joint Bank Guarantee Scheme. Praise worthy indeed.

However, when you read through the detailed circular, one cannot but notice that the beneficiaries of this JBG scheme are no more than 200 in number against 1800 memberships in TAAI itself.  That is less than 10% of all the IATA Accredited Travel Agents in India.

If only the representatives of TAAI & TAFI had taken as much effort and interest to ensure that the Weekly is reversed, the benefit would have been shared by all the 100% members nearly about 3000 of us.

But alas, they would rather BARTER THE PUBLIC GOOD (of reversing the weekly)  FOR THE PRIVATE BENEFIT (of Jt BG) of a few. It is a perennial conflict of Public Good against Private Benefit. Public Good of reversing the Weekly is NOT in the interest of the Airlines and their minions. Consequently, the vested interests, which had so subtly brought it in, would not have it reversed.

On the contrary, the Joint Bank Guarantee would certainly swell the coffers of the Associations and would help a handful of those agents, who are always there to vote for the leadership. Bravo well done. You must reward those who are with you and not the AAM AGENT, who is invisible and is suffering  silently.

When an Association collects membership fees from over 3000, getting a benefit for merely a couple of hundreds is a matter for concern. Further, it is also makes one wonder, why so much effort was taken to ensure this - if not just to fill the coffers of the Association. 

One also hears that there were occasions, where, the sum so collected was allegedly used by some of the office bearers to pay off their liabilities !

 

It is therefore, incumbent on the Office bearers to ensure, and safe guard the interests of the maximum number - nay, all the members of the Association and not just a selected few.

This goes to prove, that TAAI & TAFI would only look after the welfare of a few agents and not of the Industry. God Bless them.

Rgds

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