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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

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Flight consolidators are brokers that book airline seats in bulk at discount rates and then resell them to travel agencies. Airline consolidator business model: how it works. Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers.

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Airline Ticket Fraud and How Big Companies Avoid It

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The airline industry is no different. Over the past two decades, the airline industry – like many others – has become increasingly digital. If you’ve read an AltexSoft article on revenue integrity in airlines , you know that ticket manipulations are one of the main sources of revenue leakage.

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Email Marketing Software in the Travel Industry: Benefits, Challenges, and Success Stories

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Thanks to website cookies, collecting feedback and reviews, and providing opt-in preferences, marketers can create a unique personalized experience and build strong relationships with travelers. Automate Interactions. Recognize your customers’ milestones like anniversaries and birthdays with special loyalty benefits.

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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

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It means that people want to travel responsibly, so hotels, airlines, and tour companies have to keep up and satisfy their customers (and attract new ones). Sustainability in airline industry. Airlines implement fuel management systems to measure, analyze, and plan fuel expenditure. Here are some areas to focus on.

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Booking and Ticketing for Non-IATA Travel Agencies

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A booking happens when you create a reservation on an airline Computer Reservation System (CRS) and get a booking reference number. To issue tickets for IATA airlines, you need official accreditation that grants you access to IATA’s payment processing mechanism, the Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP). Work with an airline consolidator.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

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Online Travel Agency or OTA is a website (or app) specialized in selling travel services to customers. They basically are distributors for hotels, airlines, and tour companies that profit by taking a fee for each sale. Airline and hotel distribution network. Airlines via NDC connection. Here’s how it works. Search rules.

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Corporate travel management companies: how to choose the best provider for business trips

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At lower levels of expenses, it was a vain hope to negotiate bargain prices, perks, and commissions from airlines. More than that, many airlines offer discounts at much lower minimum spending requirements than a decade ago. More than that, many airlines offer discounts at much lower minimum spending requirements than a decade ago.