Airline Passing on Merchant Account Fees to Agents

United Airlines has decided to to pass on the cost of merchant account fees to some of their travel agents.  My guess is that the agents will just pass that fee on to the consumer.  Here is a quote from a CNN Money article about the subject, “Getting a merchant account to cover airlines for a small business is very difficult,” countered Ruden. “Credit card companies see this as a very risky business.”  It is becoming increasingly difficult to get a merchant account in this business environment.  If you go to www.instamerchant.com they are excellent at getting high risk merchant accounts approved and even better at getting merchants approved who have bad credit.  Read more of the article here.