Dutch low cost airline piloting with travel agents in Portugal
Langley, UK, 2012-09-06 — /travelprnews.com/ — Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, and transavia.com, the Dutch low cost airline, have today announced a new agreement for the distribution of transavia.com’s content to Travelport-connected agencies. Initially the service is being piloted in Portugal with plans to make the content more widely available from Q4 2012.
transavia.com carries more than 5 million passengers to over 100 destinations from their bases in the Netherlands and France. The destinations include multiple airports in a number of countries including; Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Austria and Greece.
“Expanding our global reach is an important part of our ongoing distribution strategy and an agreement with Travelport is the obvious way to achieve this,” said Rob van Dam, Vice President Sales of transavia.com “By accessing Travelport’s large customer base, we are opening up a valuable new channel for consumers to book our flights.”
Adding to this, Robin Ranken, Head of Airline Relationships for Europe at Travelport said: “This is an important agreement for our travel agency customers worldwide, who currently are the only ones to have access to this content. We are delighted that transavia.com has recognised the value that Travelport brings to airlines across the globe and we are excited about developing a long term partnership with them.”
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About Travelport (www.travelport.com)
Travelport is a broad-based business services company and a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions to companies operating in the global travel industry.
With a presence in over 170 countries, approximately 3,500 employees and 2011 net revenue of $2.0 billion, Travelport is comprised of the global distribution systems (GDS) business, which includes the Galileo and Worldspan brands and its Airline IT Solutions business.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Travelport is a privately owned company.
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About transavia.com
transavia.com, a member of the Air France/KLM Group, provides scheduled service and charter flights to more than 95 destinations, primarily in Europe and North Africa. transavia.com distinguishes itself through its ‘low fare with care’ policy and offers an attractive basic price with additional (paid) products and services. In the Netherlands, the airline flies from the national airport of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, as well as the regional airports of Rotterdam The Hague Airport, Eindhoven Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde. transavia.com also operates from Paris through Transavia France. Nearly 90% of airline tickets are sold through the website, which receives more than 1.5 million unique visitors monthly, making this low-cost airline one of the largest online shops in the Netherlands.
During the annual Feather Awards (Verenuitreiking) in 2012, transavia.com was chosen Best Low-Cost and Best Charter Airline by the Dutch travel sector for the fourth time in a row.
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