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Low cost airline booking system unveiled |
Friday, 25 August 2006 |
Travel technology specialists, Metafour, is launching a new product - Empower Flights - which allows tour operators and agents to access all the low cost airline flights.
The system follows the success of its Empower software which gives operators live online bookings written back into one central booking system. Empower Flights also includes a flexible pricing and mark-up engine to allow operators to create their own cost plan within the system for direct selling or sales through other travel retailers.
Metafour's Director, Robert Udwin said: "Traditionally operators have had to book with individual low cost airlines, now with Empower Flights, they can offer low cost airline bookings through their entire booking cycle in a single system.
It will revolutionise the way agents and operators, like city break companies, are able to work with the low cost airlines.
We can set up the whole system for an operator including their back office with integrated inventories from accommodation and other suppliers, or the Empower Flights API can be integrated into most other booking system."
Metafour has a client already live with the Empower Flights system, Arrow Tours, who include the three low cost airlines relevant to their city break business. Ben Greene, from Arrow Tours, said "This technology really gives us an advantage over our competitors. Our clients can compare the prices and availability on the low cost airlines as well as the scheduled services and choose which suits them." Another client is about to go live with five of the low costs airlines linked into their system. Metafour's Director, Robert Udwin said, "One of the added advantages of this new system is that the client can select which airlines they wish to offer and only pay for the airlines needed
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