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We deliver a complete online reservation and information solution that we customise to your intranet specification. This gives your travel bookers a familiar, user-friendly, client-facing solution whilst providing the most competitively priced travel alternatives. We provide continuous training in the systems as required, and include a support service.
Air Travel
Our solution is recognised as the market leader in corporate self-booking technology for flights, hotels and car rental. It is not simply an online booking tool; it is a comprehensive travel management and reporting solution which works in partnership with SAP and Oracle and is committed to integration with other technologies, it gives you:
- Access to over 500 airlines, including 27 low-cost airlines.
- Fares sourced from the GDS, internet and our own specially negotiated range of discounted air fares
- The flexibility to configure your site to allow reservations at only the lowest fares, or alternatively to require justification from the booker where the lowest fare is not taken
- Access to 42 car rental providers
- Access to approx. 80,000 hotels worldwide
UK Rail Travel & Bookings
Our rail travel and booking tool, gives access to the full range of times and fares throughout the UK rail network. As the only online booking tool developed specifically for the business travel environment, it offers you fast and efficient access to all available rail services. Bookings are sent automatically to your Travel Team, where we issue and arrange delivery of your tickets, or you can opt for the flexibility of onsite ticketing machines for your high-volume locations.
Our system gives you:
- A booking process that directs users to the lowest possible fares
- The ability to achieve savings in excess of 40% of normal fares
- Comprehensive fares, displayed from lowest to highest costs, and by Return and Single Fares
- Train availability in ‘real-time’ and clearly displayed
- The ability to split journeys and take advantage of cheaper single fares combined in one round-trip booking
- The ability to configure your travel policy to block certain fares or require justification where your travellers do not take the lowest fares offered
- The ability to configure the system to match your requirements, e.g. pre-set booking level security permissions, your Corporate Travel Policy, class of travel permitted, cost centre and purchase order fields be set to mandatory etc
Accurate and meaningful Management Information
Hotels
Our hotel solution offers unrivalled content, including all major chains, consortia, many independently managed properties and Premier Inn and other budget hotel chains. The interface is designed to make completing a reservation as quick and easy as possible.
We have a unique solution to the problem of paying for hotel reservations. The system now integrates seamlessly with the AirPlus payment system and offers the following benefits:
- Easy to use and intuitive interface
- Live availability
- Search availability from postal code
- Hotel location mapping as part of the initial search
- Online amendments and cancellations
- Average room rate reductions
- Administration cost reductions
- Negotiated rates programmes
- Pre-set Company Travel Policy built-in to the reservations system ensuring enforcement of mandated areas of Policy
- The booking process integrates an exception reporting facility allowing out-of-policy authorisation where required
- The blocking of online reservations where authorisation procedures are non-compliant