United Airlines

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We’ve been telling you for a few years about airlines aiming to minimize corporate discounts, limit who gets them and shift to other forms of contract value. (See here, here, here, here, here and here.) Reflecting all that, a new American Airlines offer sits between the AAdvantage Business small business program and bespoke, large corporate…

Tye Radcliffe, Accelya

Q&A: Accelya Chief Customer Success Officer Tye Radcliffe

Supporting New Distribution Capability aspirations at American, Delta, United and many other airline customers, Accelya sits on distribution’s cutting edge. For 2024, the company — which acquired Farelogix in 2020 — reported a 146 percent year-over-year jump in NDC transactions among corporate travel management companies connected to airlines through its APIs. The firm claims it…

Blockskye, United Invite Co-Branded Cards To Managed Corporate Travel
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Blockskye, United Invite Co-Branded Cards To Managed Corporate Travel

Blockchain-powered travel, payment and expense provider Blockskye announced on Tuesday that it launched Blockskye 360, a “first of its kind” platform connecting consumer loyalty cards with corporate travel management. United Airlines is the first supplier participant. The platform allows client organizations to capture data from purchases made using participating suppliers’ co-branded loyalty cards, regardless of…

Steve Johnson, American Airlines
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AA Reports New Deals With Top Corporate, Agency Accounts As Indirect Revenue Gap Closes

American Airlines has new deals with many of the corporate accounts that were most disadvantaged by its previous strategy and a few dozen of the largest corporate travel management companies, executives said. They presented this as evidence for ongoing corporate share recovery. According to AA, its fourth-quarter revenue share in indirect channels was 9 percent…

Corporate travel engagement platform Tripism offers a leisure component

Tripism Opens Leisure Travel Platform For Corporate Clients With ‘Church And State’ Split

Six Tripism clients are using the engagement platform’s new leisure component to build deeper supplier relationships and deliver favorable offers for personal trips. According to Tripism CEO Adam Kerr, it’s the right time to create a leisure experience because of the new ways people work, sustainability-minded decisions to combine trips, supplier desires for deeper customer…

Mark Nasr, Air Canada

NDC Sputters, But It’s Still The Future

The consensus among execs at airlines, travel management companies, global distribution system firms and other tech intermediaries is that NDC should become mainstream this year (if it hasn’t already). Not all buyers are like-minded. Industry metrics reflect a stall in momentum. Many corporate customers remain unconvinced about growing NDC. Some program managers who had enabled…

Transatlantic ‘Carrier-Imposed’ Surcharges Hit $2,000 Roundtrip In Business Class
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Transatlantic ‘Carrier-Imposed’ Surcharges Hit $2,000 Roundtrip In Business Class

American Express Global Business Travel in November marked a grim milestone for corporate travel buyers, reporting that carrier-imposed surcharges this year exceeded $2,000 for business class roundtrips to London Heathrow originating at New York JFK. Although added to international ticket prices (labeled as YQ or YR), these charges are not subject to negotiated corporate discounts….

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