A specialized agency providing comprehensive travel services to businesses, including booking, policy compliance, expense management and reporting.
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Travel management companies now risk striking out for looking at but not booking United’s NDC. New rules say travel agencies using NDC-enabled channels to search for flight offers must use or lose those channels, according to travel management company sources. They said that if searches from a given pseudo city code (travel agency office location,…
Flight Centre’s corporate brands are trimming headcount as the company leverages artificial intelligence in pursuit of cost savings and “disruptive business models.” “Headcount reductions are going to come a lot through natural attrition, but there will also be some targeted reductions in staff as well,” said Chris Galanty, CEO of Flight Centre’s corporate travel business,…
The Competition and Markets Authority of the United Kingdom announced on Tuesday an about-face in its assessment of the planned acquisition of CWT by American Express Global Business Travel. CMA has “provisionally” concluded that “CWT is a significantly weaker competitor than in the past and is likely to continue to weaken in the future” and…
Raise your hand if you heard about the business traveler who thought their travel management company was Concur. As Concur co-founder Steve Singh helms a variation on the theme at Spotnana, everyone nowadays is bigger on branding. “Our TMC customers really make the decision on how they think about branding,” said Singh, Spotnana’s CEO and…
With authorities on both sides of the Atlantic examining potential anticompetitive implications, and the seller possibly hurting from the uncertainty, consultant and BT4Europe chair Patrick Diemer examines the shaky ground that Amex GBT’s proposed acquisition of CWT appears to be on. In my opinion, the deal is falling apart. It’s been more than 10 months…
Festive Road’s Caroline Strachan predicted she would often say “it depends” when unpacking the government reviews of Amex GBT’s planned acquisition of CWT. It turned out that she wasn’t the only one during a live online discussion on Wednesday. Do large customers and small customers need different services from travel management companies? It depends. Can…
Answering the U.S. Department of Justice’s Jan. 10 lawsuit, American Express Global Business Travel on Tuesday said that its “owned channels,” including proprietary booking interfaces Egencia and Neo, were processing nearly 50 percent of American Airlines transactions using the New Distribution Capability as of April 2024. At the time, AA’s target was 30 percent. “Amex…
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