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Insights, tricks and tips to help you deliver a great business travel program & traveller experience for your organization.

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 we are with a Chicago snowstorm this pre-Thanksgiving Thursday.

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AmTrav is the First Business Travel Platform using Hawaiian Airlines NDC

This month AmTrav is the first business travel platform to sell Hawaiian Airlines’ lowest fares and inter-island flights through Hawaiian’s ...

AmTrav Enables New Business Traveler-Friendly Spirit Airlines Fares 

Spirit Airlines is stepping up its game with new offerings designed to attract business travelers.

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 TMC will be ready to offer NDC and the l...

Webinar: A Time for Change

First, thank you to all who attended, and to our esteemed panel: Kim Hamer of Results Plus Consulting, Cory Garner of Garner Advisory, and o...

How to Keep Earning AAdvantage on May 1

Important update: As of May 29 American Airlines' plan to restrict AAdvantage miles and loyalty points earnings by channel is "off." This pr...

Jeff Klee at The Beat Live 2023: "The End of the Beginning"

Last December, our CEO Jeff Klee delivered the keynote speech at The Beat Live Conference in New York City, which brings together senior exe...

Keep your AAdvantage with AmTrav

Important update: As of May 29 American Airlines' plan to restrict AAdvantage miles and loyalty points earnings by channel is "off." This pr...

Whose Problem Is It?

On AmTrav's NDC webinar last week Jeff and Cory shared some insight about how competing TMCs are trying to implement NDC, the technology tha...

NDC in 2024 (Recording & Transcript)

AmTrav's first webinar of 2024 was a banger featuring our CEO Jeff Klee (follow Jeff on LinkedIn) and distribution expert Cory Garner (follo...

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 Airlines’ fares were lower on AA.com and AmTrav ...
Where are the fAAres

Where are the fAAres?

Last April, American Airlines gave the corporate travel market the biggest shock in the last three decades: American removed nearly 40% of t...

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 the Northeast on Saturday and Sunday?

Dis-aggregation is not the Problem

It has been a good year for managed travel customers who use AmTrav. Compared to their peers, they saved 9% with access to American Airlines...

American Airlines Removes More Fares in August

AmTrav has tracked American Airlines’ fare changes since American removed many of their lowest fares on April 3 from corporate booking tools...

Focus on DFW: American Airlines Removes Even More Fares

AmTrav has tracked American Airlines’ fare changes since American removed many of their lowest fares on April 3 from corporate booking tools...

Amid Growing Pains, A Reminder Why We’re Still All-In on NDC

This is an adapted version of a guest-post that was originally published by The Beat. Alexander Winton, a pioneer of the American automobile...

How Cornerstone is Prepared for NDC

With decades spent working in corporate travel, the Cornerstone Information Systems team and CEO Mat Orrego are used to change – and NDC is ...
Business travelers talking, standing next to the checked bags they prepaid via NDC!

NDC Bundling: Yea or Nea?

Something we hear more and more from airlines, from customers and from prospects: “NDC bundling.” As we’ve done with NDC readiness, the cost...

Webinar Recording: Not Another NDC Webinar

AmTrav takes buyers' pressing NDC questions and shares our unique NDC experience on "Not Another NDC Webinar" featuring CEO Jeff Klee, Chief...
What will NDC cost you and your company?

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 costs travel programs hundreds of thousands ...

What Does NDC-Ready Mean?

Because American Airlines removed 40% of their lowest fares from many corporate booking providers, the big question about New Distribution C...

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 connection (with lower fares) and legacy booking...

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

When American's modern retailing strategy was announced in December, one common response from legacy corporate travel providers was "don't w...

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 "modern retailing"-enabled channels, including ...

NDC In-Depth: the tech, the changes, the benefits

The travel industry has seen significant shifts in recent years, with an increasing demand for efficient and personalized travel experiences...
American Airlines planes waiting to be filled with AmTrav customers booked via 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 booking solution to continue delivering tr...

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 our flight shopping, booking and change c...
Measuring What Matters With NDC

Measuring What Matters With NDC

“New Distribution Capability” (NDC) is an airline initiative to modernize the way airline tickets are sold on third party web sites. The eff...