Online Booking Solution

CTI American Express presents our:

Online booking corporate travel management solution (OCTM)

Why your travelers don't get the best fares online themselves and what we can do to help!

1) Fact: Any given website gets the lowest fare about 60% of the time. Each website gets different fares based on several different factors. These including the way the parameters are set, how often their prices are updated and what pricing module they use for that site for that trip.

Answer:  Our specialists can assure that the lowest fare is offered. Whether it is a web fare or reservation system fare we will offer the fare and book it for you.

2) Fact: 73% of people check more than 4 different web sites when they purchase individual travel to find the lowest fare, but when purchasing corporate travel 89% check only one site.

Answer: CTI American Express Travel automatically checks 40 different websites and their prices along with our reservation system for each booking. We check all commercial and airline websites. This happens whether you book through an agent or on tripnet.biz.

3) Fact: The airlines offer mileage incentives and other perks to entice your travelers to pay higher fares. Sometimes for spending $200 extra your traveler can double their frequent flyer point earned on a specific flight. Without a third party involved in real time with full knowledge of the options this cannot be prevented.

Answer: We will not issue a ticket against your travel policy. With this standard you can be assured that no traveler goes against the policy and misuses their trip for personal gain. This effectively puts an end to the blank check that travelers take advantage of when people aren't watching.

4) Fact: Last year, 2010, 45% of travelers who booked online, without a pre-purchase audit, spent an additional 22% on average per trip and accounted for 91% of all such enticements purchased from the airlines.

Answer: There is no way to retroactively create the pricing structure for the time of ticketing. If abuse isn't caught in real time it can't be proven in most cases.  We assure this in our pre trip audit program for both on line and agent assisted tickets.

5). Fact: A company, who migrates from a post trip travel evaluation policy to a pre purchase policy compliance audit, drops their average ticket price by 21%.

Answer: This savings is a combination of savings from travel policy enforcement, pre-trip audit, capturing the savings from the 40% of times when your site doesn't have the lowest fare and the use of our contracted savings for your trips.

CTI American Express Travel's corporate travel policy management solution provides:

·       Pre- ticketing policy audit

·       Travel policy enforcement

·       Negotiated bulk rates

·       Extensive reporting

·       Upgrades

·       Rebate program participation

·       On the road traveler tracking

·       And much more