The Canadian leisure airline, Air Transat, has launched its trade booking portal with a range of offers for UK travel agents.
Benefits of the new portal include fare parity with existing web-only fares, an increased booking window of 18 months, seamless access to book all ancillary items and a commercial agreement with the airline.
Commercial director of Air Transat UK & Ireland, Adrian Keating, commented: ?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 platform is designed for Canadian specialists and small to medium sized agents.
Keating added: ?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.
?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 interested in the portal can visit https://airtransat-agent.co.uk/agent/auth
