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Related Newslog Items August 17, 2010 Tzell Travel Group plans to provide customers the Sabre TripCase mobile messaging and itinerary application. The TripCase solution consolidates travel itineraries and also enables agencies to "send free updates, notifications and alerts to travelers throughout their entire trip," the companies noted in a press statement. TripCase is available free to iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile device users, and through most mobile Web browsers.
August 11, 2010 Conducive Technology Corp. partnered with Mobiata to create itinerary "monitoring, viewing and messaging services" for travel agencies using its FlightStats flight and itinerary monitoring solution. Part of Conducive's Agent Advantage suite and due for release this year, the new services also use Mobiata's TripDeck mobile app to give "corporate travel management companies the ability to deliver branded itinerary information and real-time service updates directly to the traveler via the TripDeck mobile application installed on the travelers mobile phone," the companies announced. FlightStats is widely used for flight status information and ontime performance data. August 9, 2010 Concur added a variety of services and content sources to its mobile solutions, including smartphone-based Amtrak bookings, flight tracking from Mobiata, GateGuru's airport dining and shopping information, public transport info from MetrO by Kinevia and services from Open Table and Taxi Magic. August 9, 2010 Carlson Wagonlit Travel signed a reseller agreement with Rearden Commerce and next year will retire its internal Horizon booking tool in favor of a Rearden-powered product, the companies announced. CWT also has reseller relationships with Concur's Cliqbook and Sabre's GetThere. August 9, 2010 Rearden Commerce by year-end will integrate Southwest Airlines' fares and inventory into its Personal Assistant product, following an agreement allowing Rearden to use the Southwest application-programming interface. The partnership will offer users "booking and ticketing that supports the loyalty/Rapid Rewards membership number at the time of booking; integrated display with enhanced functionality such as live availability and last seat inventory; support for low fare searches that return the lowest fare available [and] a wide range of additional functional benefits such as deferred ticketing, cancel reservation, retrieve reservation and exchange funds towards the purchase of new itineraries," the companies announced. August 9, 2010 Concur announced "strategic distribution agreements" for its mobile solutions with a collection of travel management companies including Adelman Travel Systems, Atlas Travel International, Azumano Travel Service, Fox World Travel, The Travel Authority, Travel and Transport, Travel Destination Management Group, Travel Incorporated, World Travel Service and World Travel Inc. Using Concur's mobile application-programming interfaces, the TMCs "will send business travel itineraries that will be integrated with Concur's mobile platform," Concur stated. August 9, 2010 Rearden Commerce partnered with IBM to offer an integrated travel and expense management solution that "consolidates booked transaction data [with] actual business expense data" from IBM's Global Expense Reporting Solution. August 3, 2010 Travel management company Nippon Express Travel USA signed to use a Travelport-branded version of Rearden Commerce's Personal Assistant software, Rearden and Travelport announced. Rearden and Travelport in June announced a "multi-year" partnership. "Several" leading U.S. TMCs have bought into the joint solution, which "provides corporations critical control and end-to-end spend management capabilities, while offering travelers a robust set of features and functionality comparable to top consumer Web sites," the companies said. July 20, 2010 Concur is adding to its mobile and travel solutions OAG's real-time flight status info "such as delays, cancellations, terminal/gate updates and baggage claim information", the companies announced. OAG's "direct connections into airlines' operational systems" provide departure and arrival times, change alerts, terminal locations and searches for alternative flights. OAG is part of UBM Aviation. July 6, 2010 Hogg Robinson Group will offer clients Sabre's TripCase mobile itinerary management and messaging application, the travel management company announced. June 28, 2010 Travel management company Kintetsu International implemented custom versions of Trondent Development Corp.'s AirMail and AirWeb services for itinerary and invoice delivery needs in North America, the companies announced.
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