INT express offices license to sell plane tickets suspended

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has suspended the licenses for selling tickets of the biggest Polish airline ticket seller INT Express. INT sells tickets worth over zl. 90 million annually, which gives the company 10% market share. INT president Lucjan Chorzelski said IATA suspended the ticket sales in seven out of 15 branches of his company in Katowice, Lodz, Rzeszow, Wroclaw, Krakow and two in Warsaw. Chorzelski says IATA agents must pay the carrier for tickets sold within two weeks. In June INT defaulted on payment resulting in the suspension. "This year IATA cut our commissions from 9% to 7% and besides the competition forced us to grant our clients considerable discounts," said Chorzelski. IATA 's Polish representative Grazyna Laskowska says the company would revoke INT's license by Aug. 1. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 27) A.Z.