Rising Australian travel technology company, Aeronology, has powered up to its next phase of development to announce a global distribution contract with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to provide Timatic, the leading travel and health regulations compliance solution.
The partnership further strengthens Aeronology’s cutting-edge technology platform in what is exciting news for Travel Advisors in Corporate, Retail and Wholesale travel environments who will be managing the travel rebound into a post-COVID world as vaccine rollouts strengthen consumer confidence in travel later this year.
Aeronology will be using the world’s leading global source of truth and travel database (Timatic) to address the all-important subjects of Health, Visa, Passport and Border regulations in over 220 countries, and used by many of the world’s airlines.
Timatic is used by airlines and travel advisors to verify passenger travel document requirements for their destination and any transit points. Airlines use various Timatic solutions to ensure customer compliance with border control rules and regulations. Timatic delivers personalised information based on such things as the passenger’s destination, vaccine/health requirements, transit points, nationality, travel document, and residence country.
“IATA’s Timatic complements Aeronology’s global travel technology which will help Travel Advisors rebound with a sophisticated and seamless global online, mobile and full-service travel booking toolbox,” Aeronology CEO Russell Carstensen says. “It’s about health, safety and travel visas, up to date information to provide confidence to the seller and buyer to travel globally.
“The Timatic – Aeronology service has been created in collaboration and will be embedded into our travel booking and ticketing applications and will allow the travel advisor to check the travel itinerary of their travel bookings, and connect with the traveller’s passport details, add extra countries if required and have all the critical up-to-date journey documentation provided instantly in English and six other languages if required.”
“We have calculated that the time saved for each Travel Advisor will be between eight to twenty hours a month, plus have the most current and informative at their fingers tips as any travel information service in the world,” Carstensen explained.
“We thrive for a seamless passenger journey. This is even more critical as the travel industry emerges from the COVID-19 crisis. Having access to the information on travel requirements including COVID requirements is imperative to this objective. The IATA– Aeronology agreement is aiming to deliver on this premise, for the travel agents and for the travelers,” said Frederic Leger, IATA’s Interim Senior Vice President for Commercial Products and Services.
All the developments by Aeronology are aimed at preparing travel advisor whether retail, corporate or wholesale, to be more productive and profitable in post-COVID travel markets. The system is travel advisor focused, highly automated and offers a full range of GDS airfares, ancillary services, NDC content and direct access to other travel products.
“All bookings and commissions stay with the agent,” Carstensen says. “Aeronology expects that individual agent productivity will increase 3 to 5 times by using the highly automated and connected Aeronology system. The time to implement this significant productivity tool is right NOW before booking activity starts to recover.”
For more information about TravelCheck and Aeronology email Russell Carstensen at russell.carstensen@aeronology.travel or visit aeronology.travel
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