shanna saji thomas, sales and agency support

shanna saji thomas

sales and agency support

qatar airways

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Operations and Finance
Experience
17 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months

sales and agency support at qatar airways
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2013

Qatar Airways August 2013 till date
Agency Support Unit-DXBHelpdesk
Job Responsibilities:
 Directing leading travel agents of DXB, SHJ & Northern Emirates to sell the best available fare to

passengers.

 Educating the travel agents withnew products and services, fares, destinations and best routings.

 Resolving queries from travel agents with regards to reservations, ticketing, fares, seat

confirmations, upgrade/downgrade proposals, meal requests, ADM queries, waiver

requests and special services.

 Drawing up contracts for key corporate accounts after assessing commercial inputs from the Key

Account Managers in coordination with the Contracts Team and Tariff team

 Keeping agents abreast of the very latest airline fares and general practices to ensure an overall

quick and effective service

 Following up with the travel agents and corporate clients to ensure high quality service and obtain

feedback to improve customer satisfaction.

 Providing support to travel agents and ensure that local and global corporate accounts are

managed consistently and effectively

 Liaising with Head Office for queries related to reservations, fares, GDS related enquiries, pricing,

corporate accounts( local and global).

 Liaising with other stations and airports to address queries relevant to but not limited to

reservation/ticketing queries, mishandled passengers, denied boardings as required each day to reduce

travel agents’ and passenger complaints

 Recording complaints from travel agents /passengers and providing the best possible solution in

consultation with line manager

 Dealing with direct as well as email enquiries from Customers (corporate/retail) regarding

bookings/queries.

 Processing, communicating the status of the product along with the terms and conditions to the

clients, incompliance with applicable travel policies.

Marketing executive at airindia
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since May 2010

Air India -Marketing Executive
Job Responsibilities:
 Business development
 Dealing with corporate clients
 Maintaining of daily load statistics
 Support airline in their sales and promotional activites
 Preparing marketing reports(pertaining to seat factor, volume, sales revenue, pricing)
 Analysis of competitors fares and promotions
 Booking &reservation, issuing tickets, reissue, confirmation
 Documentation of all types(ETL-Electronic Ticket List, No shows, SITA messages)
 Handling correspondence on day to day basis

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Air India -Assistant to Regional Manager Gulf, Middle East& Africa
 Handling correspondence on day to day basis
 Assistance to RM in handling stations across Gulf Middle East & Africa
 Maintaining performance reports

Marketing executive at citibank n.a
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2007 to April 2010

 Providing accurate presentable information about the credit cards.
 To understand and define customer’s requirements related to the credit cards.
 Achieving business targets.
 Services that will turn our satisfied customers into loyal customers.
 Foster relationship & support in every stage to the client.
 Keeping up the good teamwork.
 Identifying client through cold calling.

Education

Master's degree, Operations and Finance
  • at SP Jain Centre of Management
  • December 2011

Dissertation :Study on Air India's migration to the new IT platform and its effect on the operational activities.

Specialties & Skills

Working Under Pressure
Time Management
Team Integration

Languages

English
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Travelling ,Reading, dancing, meeting new people,designing, cooking