ARC travel agency bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) is the settlement platform that lets accredited travel agencies sell airline tickets and report those sales back to the carriers. As part of accreditation, ARC can require a travel agency to post a financial-security bond — a surety guarantee running to ARC that ticket proceeds you collect on behalf of the airlines get remitted on schedule. ARC sets the amount from your projected sales volume; the premium is priced at 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum — enter the figure ARC assigned and your exact price appears at the application.
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No open-ended underwriting queue for a standard ARC bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with ARC. Here is the whole thing:
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Agency details, the bond amount ARC assigned, and your effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
Most ARC bonds price and issue the moment you pay. The application includes a soft-pull credit consent that never affects your score.
File with ARC
Submit the executed bond through your accreditation portal to satisfy the financial-security requirement. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the ARC bond actually guarantees
ARC accredits travel agencies to issue airline tickets and settle those sales with the carriers on a regular reporting cycle. Accreditation runs on trust that an agency will remit the money it collects — ticket proceeds belong to the airlines until ARC's settlement process pays them out — and a bond backstops that trust for agencies ARC flags for additional financial security.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and ARC as obligee. If an accredited agency fails to remit ticket proceeds through the reporting cycle, ARC can make a claim against the bond up to its face amount.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. This is a program requirement set by ARC's own Agent Reporting Agreement, not a federal or state statute; the amount ARC assigns tracks your agency's projected sales volume and can be revisited as that volume changes.
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One application, issued on the spot.
Submit the application with the bond amount ARC assigned — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file through your accreditation portal.
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From $100, with your exact price at the application. Enter the amount ARC assigned and file the same day.