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Metafour creates low cost flight booking system
A booking system allowing tour operators and agents to access low cost airline flights has been developed by Metafour.
Empower Flights includes a flexible pricing and mark-up engine to allow operators to create their own cost plan within the system for direct selling or sales through travel retailers.
The system follows the company’s Empower software which gives operators live online bookings written back into one central booking system.
Metafour director Robert Udwin said: “Traditionally operators have had to book with individual low cost airlines, now they can offer low cost airline bookings through their entire booking cycle in a single system.”
He claimed: “It will revolutionise the way agents and operators, like city break companies, are able to work with the low cost airlines. We can set up the whole system for an operator including their back office with integrated inventories from accommodation and other suppliers, or the Empower Flights API can be integrated into most other booking system.”
Udwin added: “One of the added advantages of this new system is that the client can select which airlines they wish to offer and only pay for the airlines needed.”
Arrow Tours has adopted the system to include three low cost airlines used as part of its city break programme.
The operator’s Ben Greene said: “Our clients can compare the prices and availability on the low cost airlines as well as the scheduled services and choose which suits them.”
Report by Phil Davies
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