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Delta-TripActions Dispute Was About Rewards For Trading Down As Well As The Display
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Delta-TripActions Dispute Was About Rewards For Trading Down As Well As The Display

When Delta Air Lines and TripActions last winter resolved their dispute, the parties suggested it had something to do with the display interface. As it turns out, Delta also had a problem with the TripActions rewards program. TripActions client Jennie Robertson of InVision in January speculated about whether the incentive scheme was to blame. The…

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Corporate Travel Executives Struggle To Make Sense Of Latest Investments In TripActions, And Its $4 Billion Value

Corporate travel executives are thoroughly baffled by what a quartet of venture capitalists see in TripActions. Determining the literally unbelievable $4 billion valuation that TripActions claimed last month must have been way more “art” than “science.” A June 27 TripActions announcement included the also shocking statement that Andreessen Horowitz, Group 11, Lightspeed Venture Partners and…

Minneapolis TMC Makes Hay With Subscription Model
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Minneapolis TMC Makes Hay With Subscription Model

Startups are not the only travel management providers trying out new pricing models. Thirty-six-year-old family business ProfessionalTravelService.com, a Travel Leaders Group affiliate, is based in Minneapolis but lives online. Using Deem or SAP Concur, clients don’t pay online transaction fees as the TMC relies on supplier commissions and incentive payments. Services include traveler tracking through…

AA Enables Corporate Bundles Through Three TMCs
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AA Enables Corporate Bundles Through Three TMCs

American Airlines last month began distributing a corporate bundle via its NDC-compliant API to clients of three travel management companies. AmTrav, Marplay in Mexico and Brazil’s Copastur use their proprietary booking tools to sell regular economy fares that include preferred main cabin seating, no-fee changes and a checked bag. United Airlines and TripActions announced a…

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Analysts Examine Journera, SalesTrip, TravelBank, TravelPerk And TripActions

A trio of industry consultants took time out this month to join The Company Dime’s Jay Campbell and assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for a quintet of business travel startups. In general, they said, this crop has good prospects. Below are summaries of comments by Twelve Squared Growth’s Mitch Gross, Festive Road consultant Aurélie…

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Two More Startups, One Claiming A Mobile First, Adopt ATPCO’s Airfare Star Ratings

When ATPCO last month unveiled its Next Generation Storefront, officials weren’t sure how it would work on mobile devices. Progress and opinion are mixed among three corporate travel service providers now adopting the concept. Chief executives at PSNGR1 and TravelBank expected this week to activate new displays backed by NGS. PSNGR1’s deployment covers web, mobile…

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BCD Travel To Join Stampede For Small, Midmarket Business

Business travel agency entrepreneurs sometimes say they’re not competing with large travel management companies because they are not going after the large or highly managed end of the business travel market. But big TMCs are taking their clout and experience down market. Talking about categories of business travel clients can be confusing. Small, medium, large….

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