Why booking a flight ticket through an ANVR travel agency is a wise choice
This article was published on 25 August 2022 by the ANVR.
You can buy flight tickets on the websites of online flight ticket providers, as well as in, for example, travel agencies. Compared to booking directly with the airline, you get some extras for this, especially if the website, travel agency, independent travel agent or tour operator is affiliated with the ANVR. So pay close attention to this. We will list the arguments for booking a flight ticket through an ANVR company.
1. Cheese
An ANVR airline ticket provider is independent, offers all airlines, compares them and will also tell you that one airline is much more sensible/cheaper/faster than another for your destination. Airlines certainly won't tell you that on their website. An ANVR airline ticket provider can also offer combinations of airlines. After all, not all destinations can be reached directly. Based on your travel itinerary, an ANVR airline ticket provider can advise you to use one airline for your outward journey and a different one for your return journey. Airlines won't point this out to you either. ANVR airline ticket providers do, and they have very intelligent search algorithms for this purpose, enabling them to find the best fares and fare combinations for you.
2. More than just the flight
Through an ANVR airline ticket provider, you can often also arrange a hotel and/or rental car, etc. You then book your entire trip in one go, not just a flight. In addition, an ANVR airline ticket provider offers a relevant range of additional services such as travel and cancellation insurance.
3. Special Rates
ANVR airline ticket providers sell millions of tickets, often in other countries too. They negotiate with the head offices of airlines and regularly run promotions where they agree with an airline that they can offer special promotional prices/conditions for certain periods or destinations that are not offered by the airline itself.
4. Convenience
Booking with a Dutch ANVR airline ticket provider is quite straightforward. Apart from a few Dutch airlines, with other airlines you will almost always have to book and pay in a foreign language, with the risk of errors in the booking meaning your ticket could be declared invalid. With ANVR airline ticket providers, you can simply pay with iDeal. This is not possible with most foreign airlines.
5. Help when things go wrong
An ANVR airline ticket provider has many contacts with airlines and knows better than anyone how a customer can get their money back in the event of a change or cancellation. This doesn't seem too difficult for Dutch airlines, but it is quite complicated with an airline from Asia, Africa, or South America.
6. ANVR: thus extra assurance
ANVR air ticket providers are real (not fake websites). You can go to the Travel Disputes Committee for complaints, and they have a controlled liability insurance. For the sale of package tours, they are affiliated with a guarantee fund. ANVR checks all of this. For your certainty and peace of mind. So look out for the ANVR logo.
Source: ANVR. Why booking a flight ticket through an ANVR travel agency is a wise choice.