AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, the industry was going through a crisis, so airlines fought hard to track down and close every loophole. Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Airline revenue leakage. Unticketed booking.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 13, 2020

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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Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 7, 2023

The post The top mistakes team assistants make when booking business travel for bosses appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Corporate Traveller asked survey respondents about nine mistakes that their team assistants, or someone in their organisation, has made when booking travel.

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Business Traveler USA

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Alaska Airlines and Finnish flag carrier Finnair have announced an expanded codeshare arrangement. Under the agreement, customers on Finnair’s new nonstop service between Helsinki and Seattle can book connecting flights to more than 60 destinations across Alaska Air’s network. alaskaair.com , finnair.com.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 21, 2024

Representative Image Aviasales, the metasearch travel platform, presented compelling data at the recent Phocuswright WiT Middle East 2024 conference showing a significant increase in travel activity between Central Asian states and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 16, 2021

Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. In contrast, there’s also an article about booking and ticketing for non-IATA agencies which describes other ways to sell flights. What is ARC?

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AltexSoft Travel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 8, 2020

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel. Key features.

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Traveler's Q

MARCH 21, 2024

Traveling for business events involves more than just booking flights and hotels; it’s about streamlining the entire planning process to ensure maximum value and an optimal experience for all involved. To maximize your travel budget: Evaluate group rates and block bookings that can offer significant savings.

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AltexSoft Travel

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Typically posted by airlines themselves, seat maps allow passengers to visually choose which seat would fit them better and where it’s positioned in relation to emergency exits, wings, or the toilet. So, seat selection is extremely important for passengers, airlines, and distributors such as OTAs. Ancillary sharing. User experience.

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AltexSoft Travel

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Large or small, every flight booking business must have two key processes in place: booking and ticketing. To consumers, booking a flight and receiving an e-ticket may seem like a single, seamless step, but for the business providing the service they’re actually two distinct and equally important steps.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And before you ask if this comparison is even fair, consider how expectations for railway shopping were influenced by the way we purchase airline tickets. Airlines rely on their IT systems, investing in innovations to compete and survive. Airline technology, for example, spawned from one first booking system — Sabre.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 20, 2022

A few years ago, Joe DeNardi, a Stifel analyst, published a sensational report that contained estimated values of some of the biggest US airlines’ loyalty programs. According to it, American Airlines’ AAdvantage was worth $37.6 All these impressive numbers unveil the hidden power behind airlines’ loyalty programs. Those include.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 18, 2021

Pricing in the airline industry is often compared to a brain game between carriers and passengers where each party pursues the best rates. How dynamic pricing in the airline industry works. OTAs and other travel platforms integrate this feature to attract more visitors looking for the best rates. Internal factors include.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 23, 2022

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 18, 2022

Aviation is one of the major sources of greenhouse gasses, so airlines must adopt effective strategies to decarbonize their operations. So, airlines face a tremendous challenge of reducing their emissions and accommodating the growing demand at the same time. So how does carbon offsetting actually work for airlines?

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 13, 2019

The post United Airlines unveils meetings portal on Jetstream appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. United Airlines’ Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. United Airlines has launched its meetings portal as part of its Jetstream web offering. United claimed that the platform goes beyond its competitors.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 20, 2021

Hotels have been experiencing a surge of direct bookings during the pandemic. Yes, while the overall number of bookings dropped due to COVID-19, hotels’ brand.com websites became the third most popular booking channel , in some cases even surpassing Expedia traffic. Direct booking strategies for hotels. Why is that?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The first six months of 2022 were a busy time for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, as Dubai Business Events (DBE), Dubai’s convention bureau, as the two destinations collaborated to procure 99 event bookings over the coming years. Dubai’s ability to book this number of events are credited to the success of the country’s Expo 2020.

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 26, 2020

About half of all hotel bookings happens indirectly, meaning that travelers book rooms at Booking.com, Expedia, Orbitz, and other online travel agencies (OTAs). So, where do these bookings come from? It originated from the airline industry and slowly tried to capture adjacent travel segments. Book hotel rooms.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 12, 2023

If finalized, a new FTC rule would mandate that online travel agencies and other booking channels do the same. While the new FTC rule would not require hotels to eliminate resort fees, it would mean that costs would need to be clear in the booking process.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. With so many online booking platforms available, one may wonder: does a company really need external assistance?

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Business Traveler USA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But Air New Zealand—the airline that brought you the venerable Skycouch—is introducing a new economy-cabin sleep-pod concept to long-haul flights starting in 2024. That economy-cabin seat design involves footrests that can be raised individually or across the row to create an even platform for sleeping or entertaining little ones.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 7, 2022

Since the 70s, when the first booking systems had started sprouting, the industry has been evolving and becoming increasingly complex to understand and operate in. Channel managers , which are used by hotels to control all listings placed on all platforms. Travel distribution is complicated. A pyramid of commissions.

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Business Traveler USA

JANUARY 3, 2022

Electra.aero, a US-based clean aviation technology company, and Flyv, a German start-up airline specializing in on-demand air mobility, have partnered to employ a new generation of hybrid-electric aircraft in underserved regional travel markets in Europe. The economics were a challenge with conventional aircraft.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 24, 2020

When IATA introduced New Distribution Capability (NDC) in 2015, airlines rejoiced. So four years later, ATPCO offered a solution – Next Generation Storefront or NGS – a new standard for airline data presentation. These tools together with an airline ancillaries aggregator Routehappy are boosting airline merchandising.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

EaseMyTrip.com, one of India’s largest online travel tech platforms, introduces its specialised Corporate Travel Business division. Business travel is more than just booking a flight or hotel; it’s about providing a seamless experience that allows professionals to focus solely on their work.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 30, 2023

More than two-thirds of sales in travel and tourism are made via the Internet, and the share of online vs offline bookings will only grow in the coming years. Instead, it forwards cardholder data to an airline or hotel, which serves as an MoR: It withdraws money from a customer’s card and then pays a commission to the OTA.”

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 30, 2021

To meet the popular customer requirement “to fly from anywhere to anywhere” and reduce inconveniences associated with multi-leg journeys, airlines have no other alternative but to cooperate with each other. Key partnership frameworks in aviation were designed decades ago, in the era of large state-owned airlines and regulated fares.

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Leonardo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

RateGain is proud to support 250,000+ hotel properties globally by providing 240 billion rate and availability updates & powering over 30 Million bookings. Leonardo’s technology platform lets hotels, hotel chains and management companies showcase their properties and amenities across the web to drive more bookings and revenue.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 30, 2023

Many companies have closed user groups for employees to book travel for business purposes, often at discounted rates. customers who have booked a certain number of trips or have a certain level of spending); meeting certain demographic or lifestyle criteria (e.g., Members of corporate travel programs. Group travelers.

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Travel Daily Media

JULY 25, 2019

The post PredictHQ and Amadeus partnership: “Improving event visibility has been a goal of airlines for decades” appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. TD: How will the partnership benefit airline customers or travellers? CB: Uber, Qantas, Domino’s and Booking.com all use PredictHQ. Benjamin Cany.

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AltexSoft Travel

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Company’s booking website and mobile app allow you to track and collect a wealth of data, from web traffic information to user behavioral metrics (session duration, navigation paths, etc.), Other travel booking platforms are the main source of information on competitors’ offerings. geolocation, profiles, and feedback.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 2, 2023

The sharing economy has managed to create a new way of traveling, through online sharing platforms that facilitated direct transactions between ordinary citizens to share houses and cars, traditional foods and local information, enabling social interactions that connected tourists to the local community.

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AltexSoft Travel

MAY 29, 2023

For example, there are about 5,000 airlines but over 80,000 travel agencies in the US alone. Many starting travel agencies or individual agents join a host agency for access to booking capabilities. There are special programs not for agencies but for organizations that regularly book travel for their employees’ business trips.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier this month, Sabre Corporation sponsored the travel tech stage at the Arabian Travel Market Middle East (ATM) 2023 in Dubai, providing a platform to facilitate industry discussions and debates about technology and innovation. Enabling modern retailing is an industry-wide effort. But agency’s role is crucial too!

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Interface Tourism Spain

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Plan ahead and be flexible Booking flights and accommodations in advance can help you save money. According to a report by Expedia , booking your flight on a Sunday saves travelers approximately 5% on domestic flights and 15% on international flights. Use budget airlines Budget airlines can provide significant savings on flights.

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