Travelocity Business First to Offer Negotiated Business Travel Fares on Frontier and Other Airlines
April 26 2004 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Travelocity Business First to Offer Negotiated Business Travel
Fares on Frontier and Other Airlines Continues to Broaden Special
Air, Hotel and Car Deals for Business Travelers SOUTHLAKE, Texas,
April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Travelocity Business(SM), a full-service
corporate travel agency, today announced it is the first Internet
travel management company to offer all of its customers business
travel discounts on Frontier Airlines and a number of international
carriers. These discounts are designed specifically for business
travelers, including discounts on refundable and non-refundable
tickets, without the restrictions of leisure discounts, such as Web
fares. In addition to Frontier, Travelocity Business has negotiated
business programs with international air carriers for its customers
that travel outside of the United States, including AeroMexico,
Japan Airlines and Qantas. Earlier this month, Travelocity Business
also announced it has added discounted corporate rates from Best
Western to its portfolio of hotel agreements. The announcements are
part of an initiative to provide discounted rates to businesses,
without the restrictions often associated with leisure specials.
"Business travelers are often willing to take advantage of special
deals, like Web fares, but they don't always have the flexibility
to use these more restrictive options. Through arrangements like
this with Frontier, we are offering discounts to companies and
their travelers, but with all the flexibility business travelers
need to make their trips most productive," said Ellen Keszler,
president of Travelocity Business. "For our larger clients, these
complement their own negotiated fares. Small and mid-size
businesses are telling us they would just prefer we negotiate rates
for them, rather than managing this complex task themselves." Sean
Menke, senior vice president of marketing for Frontier Airlines
said, "Frontier is focused on providing the right mix of price and
flexibility to both leisure and business travelers. Travelocity has
always been an excellent partner, and now working with Travelocity
Business, we are able to enhance our reach into the business travel
market, offering even more flexibility to complement the wide range
of value-added programs we currently offer the business traveler."
Frontier Airlines offers several programs tailored to business
travelers, including: -- Business Travel Program that provides
credits for use on future Frontier flights -- Affordable one-way
fares -- Electronic Ticketing -- No minimum/maximum or Saturday
night stays required -- Advance seat assignments -- EarlyReturns(R)
Frequent Flyer program -- Online flight check-in -- DIRECTV(R)
programming on all Airbus 319 aircraft About Frontier Currently in
its tenth year of operations, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is the
second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport
with a fleet of 40 aircraft and employing approximately 4,200
aviation professionals. Frontier, in conjunction with Frontier
JetExpress operated by Horizon Air, operates routes linking our
Denver hub to 38 destinations in 22 states spanning the nation from
coast-to-coast and to five cities in Mexico. Frontier's maintenance
and engineering department has received the Federal Aviation
Administration's highest award, the Diamond Certificate of
Excellence, in recognition of 100 percent of its maintenance and
engineering employees completing advanced aircraft maintenance
training programs, for five consecutive years. In August 2003,
Frontier ranked as one of the "Top 10 Domestic Airlines" as
determined by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine. Frontier
provides capacity information and other operating statistics on its
Web site, which may be viewed at http://www.frontierairlines.com/ .
About Travelocity Business Travelocity Business is a full-service
corporate travel agency that helps companies easily manage travel
and reduce costs, while providing more choices to travelers.
Travelocity Business combines the savings and convenience of online
with the full service of dedicated agents available 24/7 who
typically answer the phone in 20 seconds, and within 60 seconds
guaranteed. Companies can cut travel costs through flight deals,
Web fares, hotel discounts and service fee savings -- representing
an average savings of more than $142 per trip, including airfare
savings averaging 26 percent per ticket and service fee savings of
up to 84 percent. Travelocity Business merges the expertise,
service and travel choices of Travelocity(R) with the most proven
online corporate travel technology, already used by more than half
of the Fortune 200. For more information, companies can visit
http://www.travelocitybusiness.com/ . About Travelocity
Travelocity's industry-leading technology and straight-talking,
honest information help travelers take more rewarding and more
affordable trips. With 41 million registered users and booking
nearly $4 billion of travel in 2003, Travelocity(R) has the power
to negotiate thousands of great travel deals with the world's most
reputable travel providers -- top airlines, hotels, car rental
companies, cruise lines, and other destination attractions and
services. Additionally, Travelocity offers access to special rates
for weekend getaways and dynamic packages through its Last Minute
Deals and TotalTrip(SM) shopping engines, and provides customer
service support over the phone 24 hours a day. Based in Southlake,
Texas, Travelocity also operates Travelocity Business for corporate
customers, powers international travel Web sites in seven
languages, and has been recognized for its consumer advocacy and
global leadership in online travel. More information about
Travelocity is available at http://www.travelocity.com/ .
Travelocity is owned by Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE:TSG), a
world leader in travel commerce. More information about Sabre
Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com/ . Contact:
Mary Kate Smither ( ) (972) 488-4790 Chintan Talati ( ) (972)
488-4790 VOLLMER DATASOURCE: Travelocity Business CONTACT: Mary
Kate Smither, , or Chintan Talati, , both of VOLLMER,
+1-972-488-4790, for Travelocity Business Web site:
http://www.travelocitybusiness.com/ http://www.travelocity.com/
http://www.sabre-holdings.com/ http://www.frontierairlines.com/
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