EASYJET, the UK’s largest airline, has renewed its distribution agreement with Travelport, a leading distribution services and e-commerce provider for the global travel industry.
The agreement means that Travelport-connected travel agencies worldwide can easily access and book all easyJet flights, including flexi fares and inclusive fares through their preferred GDS booking processes.
The inclusive fare combines the services that are important to corporate bookers such as bag and seat selection with easyJet’s low fares and is only available through the GDS and other booking systems connected to the easyJet API.
Andy Hodges, easyJet’s director sales, distribution and business, comments: “We are delighted to have renewed our deal with Travelport – its extensive global footprint provides us with an efficient distribution channel for our popular low fares, including the inclusive fare and flexi fare, especially to the managed corporate travel market.
Robin Ranken, head of European Airline Relations at Travelport, adds: “We’ve had a strong relationship with easyJet for some years now and we’re very pleased to be renewing our distribution agreement with them today. We look forward to continuing to work closely together and exploring further opportunities for easyJet to use our leading technology in order to maximise bookings with the travel trade.”
In addition to Galileo, Travelport’s Worldspan and Apollo GDS systems will also provide access to easyJet fares later this year.
easyJet and Travelport have worked together since 2007 – one of easyJet’s first deals with a third party distribution channel. The deal was later further enhanced by providing additional functionality to agents including the ability to sell easyJet ancillary services including seat selection. easyJet’s deal with Travelport means that during that time all Galileo-connected agency customers worldwide and any other agency using the Travelport Universal API have had access to easyJet’s fares.