Air Transat, the leading Canadian leisure airline, has today launched a trade booking portal that offers a host of benefits to UK travel agents.
Agents signing up to use the new trade portal will benefit from:
- Fare parity with existing web only fares
- Increased booking window, with the ability to book 18 months in advance
- Access and ability to book all ancillary items seamlessly
- A commercial agreement with the airline
Adrian Keating, Commercial Director UK & Ireland of Air Transat, says: “The launch of our new trade portal diversifies our distribution, enabling us to offer the travel trade more choice in how they want to work with us. The portal will also deliver cost savings that we can then reinvest into our commercial agreements.”
Air Transat’s exclusive platform is designed for Canadian specialists, and small to medium sized agents.
Keating says: “We engaged with three Canadian specialist agents in a pre-launch test period, and their feedback has been valuable in ensuring the portal was built to cater for their requirements, with a seamless user experience and all of the content they need to serve their customers.”
He adds: “We recognise the portal won’t be for everyone. Some of our larger agent partners will wish to maintain their existing distribution arrangements, but they will still benefit from a more lucrative commercial deal because of the savings the portal brings us. So the introduction of the portal is a positive development for all of our partners.”
Agents interests in using the new portal can email SalesSupportUK@transat.com.
