Difficult Times Send Travel Agents to Sell More Discount Airfares and Niche Airfares.

Humanitarian, Student, and Consolidator net discount airfare products on 36 airlines are now available in a new website designed exclusively for travel agents: www.afcnet.com

MINNEAPOLIS -- The rise in Humanitarian and Missionary Travel, Educational Travel, and Volunteer Travel (or Voluntourism) has created a new demand for niche discount airfare products. In response, airlines such as British Airways, Lufthansa, and Delta have revamped their net airfare programs to be more competitive and offer various "niche" specific value added benefits (IE: 3 free checked pieces of luggage for Volunteer Travelers).

"Travel Agents can still make good commissions and serve a purpose by selling our discount airfare products to qualified customers," says AFCNET President Erik Skoog, "and we believe www.afcnet.com is simply the best consolidator and niche airfare website available today."

There are a host of industry 1(st) features designed specifically for Travel Agents:

* 'Itinerary Builder' allows agents to build multi-segment (up to 12) complex routes flight by flight and when pricing agents can compare up to three types of prices (niche, consolidator, and published fares) all at the same time.

* Agents can complete the booking process entirely online and send their customers a personalized custom quote with their logo straight from the www.afcnet.com website.

* In addition to discount airfares, AFC Net recently added Net Hotel rates exclusively for Travel Agents.

* For added accuracy, the booking engine searches multiple GDS's simultaneously pulling the lowest net fares and published fares on both GDS's for price comparison.

* Agents can add their logos, set mark ups, print custom receipts through custom invoicing features.

* Filter general flight search by all airfare channels offered: humanitarian, student, and general consolidator fares.

* TRAMS users: All reservations seamlessly import reservation data back into TRAMS ClientBase so you can print itineraries, generate invoices and store travel history for your client.

AFCNET has been endorsed by Linda Furry, The President of USACA, the consolidator association representing $5 billion in airfare sales, "AFCNET offers the broadest range of net airfare products targeted to Travel Agents that I have seen anywhere in the industry."

AFCNET, a division of AFC Travel, Inc. has served the travel agent community for over 13 years by offering multiple niche and general consolidator international airfare products on 36 airlines around the world. The AFCNET's management team has volunteered in over 100 countries collectively around the globe, and combined with its sister companies the AFCNET group has given over $1.8M back to various non-profit organizations. Discover more at www.afcnet.com or call 866-650-6111.