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AmTrav 2025 Business Travel Savings Report

This Valentine's Day AmTrav is bringing you savings that you'll ❤️!

Ready or Not, Winter's Back

A November (or even October) snowstorm is such a rude way for winter to make its return, yet here...

Webinar: Business Travel Platform of the Future

Hi, thanks to everyone who joined AmTrav's Business Travel Platform of the Future webinar. The...

Should you rent an EV for your next business trip?

EVs are everywhere: Teslas, Chevy Bolts, Hyundai Ioniqs, Kia Niros, even Ford F150s and Mustangs....

Business Travel Veteran Ted Perlstein Joins AmTrav to Lead RM Team

Chicago, October 14, 2024 – Today AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, announced...

Webinar: Supplier Sourcing Insights for 2025 (Parts 1 & 2)

Thank you to our presenters and everyone who joined AmTrav’s Supplier Sourcing Insights webinars.

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Secure & Speedy Single Signons

Want to make logging into your travel platform a breeze (no relation) for your whole team?Configure...

Webinar & Report: Everybody Wants to Book Online

The results are in: everybody wants to book everything online.

TravelPerk acquires AmTrav (Press release)

See AmTrav CEO Jeff's letter to customers here.

Webinar: Hotels 101

Thank you to hospitality expert Stephen Fitzgerald of Garner for joining us today to help us...

10 Questions to Ask your TMC about NDC

The latest GBTA poll from April 2024 shows that 45% of travel administrators aren’t sure when their...

Webinar: A Time for Change

First, thank you to all who attended, and to our esteemed panel: Kim Hamer of Results Plus...

ADTRAV vs. AmTrav: what's the Difference?

AmTrav and ADTRAV, two respected companies that help you book and manage your corporate travel, one...

All About United PassPlus

United PassPlus^® is United Airlines’ prepaid offer designed for small and midsize corporate...

All About United PerksPlus

Update:

As of Feb. 1, 2024, bookings through PerksPlus, which allows business customers to accrue...

Making the Most of Unused Tickets For Corporate Travel

Learn how to maximize the value of unused tickets for corporate travel and save on travel expenses.

How to Keep Earning AAdvantage on May 1

Important update: As of May 29 American Airlines' plan to restrict AAdvantage miles and loyalty...

Webinar: Corporate Hotel Tech & Payments

AmTrav was honored to host six providers who work hard every day to make corporate hotel payments...

Direct-Only Airline SMB Programs: Advantages & Disadvantages

Some airline SMB programs like Southwest Airlines’ SWABIZ, American Airlines' AAdvantage Business,...

Whose Problem Is It?

On AmTrav's NDC webinar last week Jeff and Cory shared some insight about how competing TMCs are...

How Much Did Your Company Save with American's Lowest Fares?

Last week AmTrav released the “Where are the fAAres?” report diving into how often American...

Where are the fAAres?

Last April, American Airlines gave the corporate travel market the biggest shock in the last three...

United Airlines NDC Makes it Easy to Escape Winter Weather

Did you see the weather waiver that United Airlines sent out this morning for the snowstorm hitting...

Final Thoughts on Travel Policy

Having looked at examples of how travel policy works and what happens when travel policy isn’t...

Further Proof that Travel Policy & Approvals Work (More Examples!)

Have you ever spent several hours digging through pre-trip approval requests, or a few minutes...

AmTrav Upgrades Hotel Shopping

What’s your ideal corporate travel tool?

Dis-aggregation is not the Problem

It has been a good year for managed travel customers who use AmTrav. Compared to their peers, they ...

How Travel Managers Can Prepare for Changing TMC Economics (part 2 of 3)

Following AmTrav’s radically honest TMC Secrets webinar (watch it here), yesterday we shared how...

How TMCs Make Money Today and How that Could Change (Part 1 of 3)

Have you ever wondered how your travel management company (TMC) makes money and pays their bills?

All About American Airlines Business Extra

In October 2023 American Airlines announced that the Business Extra corporate rewards program would...

Does Travel Policy Work? (Answer: Yes)

One occasional request we get when we demo AmTrav’s a2b booking platform to prospective customers...

American Airlines Removes More Fares in August

AmTrav has tracked American Airlines’ fare changes since American removed many of their lowest...

Focus on DFW: American Airlines Removes Even More Fares

AmTrav has tracked American Airlines’ fare changes since American removed many of their lowest...

Webinar - Maximizing Your Hotel Savings in 2024

It's RFP season. And so we are here to talk about how to maximize your hotel savings in 2024, and...

2023 Mid-Year Travel Cost Update: Cooling Down At Last

It’s been an interesting (and increasingly expensive!) couple of years watching travel costs, as...

How Cornerstone is Prepared for NDC

With decades spent working in corporate travel, the Cornerstone Information Systems team and CEO...

NDC Bundling: Yea or Nea?

Something we hear more and more from airlines, from customers and from prospects: “NDC bundling.”...

Webinar Recording: Not Another NDC Webinar

AmTrav takes buyers' pressing NDC questions and shares our unique NDC experience on "Not Another...

What Will NDC Cost You?

We know what NDC-ready means, we know the benefits of NDC, and we know that not being NDC-ready...

What Does NDC-Ready Mean?

Because American Airlines removed 40% of their lowest fares from many corporate booking providers,...

American NDC Fares Analysis (Week 5): Webinar Next Week!

I know, I know. You've come to rely on the AmTrav Blog for one-of-a-kind insight into American...

American NDC Fares Analysis (Week 4): Digging into Economy Fares

Last week we examined American Airlines fare differences by fare brand between AmTrav's NDC...

American NDC Fares Analysis (Week 3): Premium Customers Pay More

When American's modern retailing strategy was announced in December, one common response from...

American NDC Fares Analysis (Week 2): Not All Routes Are Created Equal

It's been two weeks since American Airlines restricted the sale of their lowest fares to NDC...

AmTrav's Enhanced Platform to Help Business Travelers Navigate American Airlines' New Flight Booking Changes

AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, today announced upgrades to its corporate...

One Year of Meetings & Guest Travel Made Easy with AmTrav Gather 🎉

Have you heard the news – it’s AmTrav Gather’s first birthday!Hooray! In Gather’s first year 120...

Webinar - Maximizing Travel Program Savings in 2023

Hello and welcome to the second installment of our 2023 webinar series brought to you by Amtrav....

Little Things that Drive Your Productivity

First off – this is a silly blog post, don’t read it if you’re not up for a silly blog post written...

Three Things we Learned from Soundings+AmTrav 2023 Meetings Outlook

Three Things we Learned from Soundings+AmTrav 2023 Meetings Outlook Webinar

Webinar Highlights 2023: NDC comes to america

In our webinar, NDC Comes to America, held January 31st, 2023, T2RL CEO and former Vice President...

Product Update: AmTrav Manage pages updates

We’re continually updating AmTrav’s one connected platform, including implementing your...

Finding the Most Reliable Flights this Winter

The leaves have fallen off the trees, Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes have come and gone, it’s...

What’s the best way to plan group air?

The COVID pandemic is finally passing and you can gather face-to-face with your friends and...

Setting your 2023 Travel Budget

This week AmTrav met with dozens of travel administrators on our 2023 Travel Forecast webinar,...

Meeting Hotels Made Easy

Are you tired of wrangling room blocks? Last-minute checkin date changes, begging the hotel to...

Summer 2022 Travel: How bad was it?

Going by the headlines, summer 2022 travel was truly, uniquely awful.

AmTrav and Marriott make virtual payments work better for customers

Virtual cards provided by CSI and Conferma allow corporate customers to securely centralize payment...

Finding the Most Reliable Flights this Fall

It’s fall: the weather is a little cooler, kids are back in school, pumpkin spice lattes are back...

Happy Hotel RFP Season

It’s still warm outside and the leaves haven’t started turning, but the kids are headed back to...

Corporate Meetings Return to 2019 Levels

There's a lot of good news for people who like meeting peers face-to-face, who enjoy an...

Finding the Most Reliable Flights this Summer

Summer travel always means dodging thunderstorms, but in summer 2022 you’re dodging airline, hotel...

Three Things we Learned at the BTN Tech Talk Chicago

AmTrav was proud to sponsor the BTN’s Travel Tech Talk in Chicago this week, it was great event...

How Can You Use AmTrav Gather?

AmTrav clients have used AmTrav Gather to quickly, easily plan travel for thousands of travelers,...

How to Expand Your Role as a Travel Manager

Want to expand your role as a travel manager – take on more responsibilities, do cool new work, and...

AmTrav Gather Makes Meetings Travel Planning Easy

AmTrav exists to bring people together face-to-face and make business work better — because it's...

Coming Next Week: AmTrav Makes Planning Meetings Travel Easy

As the COVID pandemic slowly recedes we’ve seen a return to meetings and events — and we couldn’t...

Three things we Learned at the BTN “Sourcing a Booking Tool” workshop

Why do buyers choose their booking tools?

Maximize Your Travel Program Savings in 2022

What are the biggest opportunities to save your travel program money in 2022?

The Latest Unused Tickets News

Quick: what’s the easiest way to save your travel program money in 2022?Answer: use your unused...

Three things we learned at the BTN Travel Program & Policy Workshop

AmTrav was proud to sponsor the Business Travel News “Structuring a Managed Travel Program &...

What to Expect from AmTrav in 2022

We’re about two months into 2022 which means it’s the perfect time to tell you what we’re doing...

Announcing Gather: The Guest Travel Planning Solution That Makes BOTH Arrangers and Guests Happy

AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, announces Gather, the travel planning...

Coming Next Week: AmTrav Makes Guest Travel Easy

For too long guest travel has been a pain to plan – even with AmTrav – but enough is enough!Next...

Clients Recover $500K in United Airlines Unused Ticket Value

Redeeming unused ticket credits with one click in AmTrav is a great way to save money on business...

Ready to Help in Teams and Slack

“So you can communicate with us from wherever you want.”

All About UATP

This page is under construction 👷👷👷! Check back soon for more soon.

All About United Airlines Propel

United Airlines' Propel program is a corporate discount program that offers set discounts on United...

Hotel Rates Are Rising, How Can Your Company Save Money?

My my, how things change in a few short months in the corporate travel industry.

How We Use Your Feedback to Improve AmTrav

Have you ever responded to an AmTrav post-trip survey and wondered what happens with your feedback?

AmTrav and Emburse Make Expenses Easy

Happy Birthday Southwest Airlines!

Happy 50th birthday, Southwest Airlines!

AmTrav Makes it Easy to Make CO2-Smart Choices and Track Your Impact

This week AmTrav launched two new tools that help you track your company’s carbon dioxide emissions...

State Department Lowers Advisory Level for Dozens of International Destinations

This week the U.S. State Department lowered the advisory level for several countries. Advisories...

Saving Money with Unused Tickets and Name Changes

Unless you're new to the AmTrav blog (in which case, welcome!) you know that we love unused tickets...

Two Steps to Prepare for Your Hotel Stay During the Pandemic

You’re preparing to get back on the road for business -- what should you expect?

Heads Up: Be Prepared For Uber and Lyft Shortages Right Now

Today Business Travel News reported on a driver shortage causing a shortage of Uber and Lyft ride...

Looking Ahead to Summer Business Travel with American Airlines’ President

American Airlines’ President Robert Isom sat down with business travel publication The Company Dime...

Are State Travel Requirements About to Disappear?

After a long and cold December, January and February, the AmTrav COVID Resource Center state travel...

There’s an Answer for That: Introducing the AmTrav Knowledge Base

We’ve all been there: trying to remember how something works and feeling frustrated because we...

One Stop Shop: New American Airlines Fares Available to AmTrav Customers

As our CEO Jeff explained in December, his goal for AmTrav’s booking tool is to “show you all the...

Vaccinated? Two States Are Waiving Their Travel Restrictions for You

Last month we wrote about Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Green's suggestion that travelers fully...

Do I Need a Negative COVID Test to Fly in the United States?

Update Feb.15: The U.S. CDC and Biden Administration stated that they do not plan to require...

The Easiest Way to See the Value of Your Business Travel

Last week AmTrav introduced a new Trip Success Report to help you evaluate the success of your...

Can Vaccinated Travelers Skip Hawaii's Quarantine and Testing Requirements?

Normally the esteemed AmTrav blog doesn’t cover the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, but when the...

New Year, Faster Flight Selection with AmTrav (VIDEO)

AmTrav 2020 Product Recap (VIDEO)

2020 didn't go as planned, but just like you, we adjusted. We continued building AmTrav's one...

It’s Now Easier to Track Former Employees’ Unused Tickets

Last month in our post outlining three steps to save money with former employees’ unused tickets,...

COVID Cases, Vaccines and Travel: What We Expect Business Travel to Look Like in 2021

You've probably seen the news: COVID cases are continuing to climb in the U.S., triple summer case...

“How much do you charge for that?”

Responding to the Company Dime story about AmTrav’s partnership with Journera to provide real-time...

Track Your Travelers in Real Time With AmTrav and Journera

If you use the AmTrav Traveler Locator Report regularly, you know it gives you an accurate view of...

Three Steps to Save Money With Former Employees’ Unused Tickets

The only thing trickier than unused tickets are unused tickets that were issued to former...

It's About You

We're really excited to share with you the two new case studies we published this week telling the...

Celebrating One Year of the Best Southwest Shopping & Booking Technology

Our friends at Southwest Airlines reminded us that it’s officially been one year since we upgraded...

Getting the hotel room and rate you need with AmTrav

What to Expect at Your Hotel: Three Questions to Ask Before You Arrive

Many aspects of travel have changed with COVID, including the hotel experience. While hotels strive...

Room Blocks Are for Weddings, Not Business

Hotel room blocks work really well for weddings. Room blocks offer a lot of flexibility, giving...

Introducing AmTrav’s New Post-Trip Surveys

To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine? Navigating State COVID Travel Restrictions

If you or your coworkers are traveling during the COVID pandemic, you need to remember to bring...

Tired of Unused Tickets? No? Me Neither!

A colleague shared some data with me today. It inspired me to share a story with you.

The Little Marketing Initiative That Could: Reflecting on Six Months of Communications in 2020

Coming into 2020 we thought it was a good time to put an emphasis on communicating regularly with...

What to Do If an Employee Gets COVID-19 On the Road

As part of your duty of care to employees, you should have an action plan that outlines the...

Fast, Confident Travel Preparation: The AmTrav COVID Resource Center

Today we are launching a new COVID Resources Center webpage displaying current travel restrictions...

New & Improved: Printer-Friendly Trip Confirmations

In late February we released a new trip confirmation email format. We lamented that our previous...

Traveler Safety Enhancements at AmTrav

We know how hard it is to keep up with the constantly-changing risks and restrictions facing your...

AmTrav Travelers on COVID-Era Travel: “Pack Your Patience"

It’s hard to know what to expect when traveling right now in the COVID era. In order to find out...

PERSONAL SERVICE FOR PERSONAL TRAVEL

This is a story from our colleague Elliott McNamee, who recently used AmTrav to book his personal...

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