Global flight planning service Dohop has introduced its no-frills flight connection service for airlines.
The Dohop Connection Platform, which has been in development over the past year, enables low-cost airlines to offer customers suitable flight connections.
The system works by giving customers on an airline website information on the connections available with the amount of time they have to transfer.
Dohop chief executive Frosti Sigurjonsson said that companies were reluctant to employ the technology in the past for fear of losing business to competitors but have discovered that it can fill more seats for them.
“We’re now getting interest from some very big airlines and they want to take it all the way and facilitate the booking of connecting flights.”
Customers only enter their details once and the information is forwarded to the different airlines systems.
“An airline could invite 10 other airlines to be bookable on their website. The low-cost airlines can do a lot to help customers make sensible connections without adding a lot of cost to the business model,” said Sigurjonsson.
He claimed to be talking to more than 10 large low-cost airlines about the technology already.
The Dohop Connection Platform is already being used by WestJet and Iceland Express.
By Linda Fox
