Yapta Powers New Airfare Price Tracking Service from Egencia
November 15 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Agreement for Airfare Price Tracking Technology
Ushers in Fare Savings Finder for Egencia Customers
Yapta, the leading provider of airfare and hotel price tracking
services, today announced a partner agreement with Egencia, the
corporate travel offering of the Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE). At
the close of 2015, Egencia began offering customers in the United
States Fare Savings Finder, a dynamic airfare price tracking
solution powered by Yapta. Fare Savings Finder dynamically scans
for lower fares on the exact same flights, alerting agents to
rebook when savings are found. Preliminary results of Yapta’s
airfare tracking technology for Egencia customers have shown an
average realized savings range of nearly $120 to over $425 per
booking off the originally booked ticket price.
“Businesses look to Egencia as an innovative leader, delivering
key product and service offerings to its business travel client
base,” said James Filsinger, President and CEO of Yapta. “Fare
Savings Finder provides one more way that Egencia can deliver
airfare savings without impacting the traveler experience. The
solution also complements Egencia’s continued pursuit of real-time
data and insights by offering access to the performance
intelligence made available via Yapta’s 24x7 dashboard.”
Egencia customers using the Fare Savings Finder have access to
the core analytics dashboard engineered by Yapta. To ensure maximum
savings among users, Egencia helps customers “action” savings as
they arise, thereby optimizing the conversion of savings
opportunities, providing real-time access to “identified” and
“realized” savings, and the total spend tracked. Egencia has also
streamlined the onboarding process, making it simple and easy for
customers to begin quickly realizing savings with the service. This
move highlights the value of investment made by Egencia in
technology and analytics; which also includes the recently launched
Egencia® Travel Intelligence home page.
“A continued focus on the provision of real time data is at the
heart of Egencia’s approach to travel management. Airfare price
tracking is an example of this and has proven extremely effective
at helping companies streamline costs and gain greater insight into
their air spend,” said Mark Hollyhead, Chief Operating Officer,
Egencia. “By introducing Fare Savings Finder, we’ve harnessed the
power of Yapta, and greatly simplified the airfare price tracking
experience; thereby delighting many of our customers.”
“The Fare Savings Finder is a key technology for Egencia
customers looking to cut airfare costs now and in the future,”
Filsinger said. “Not only do customers have complete visibility
into real-time airfare pricing, but the detailed information they
need to negotiate future pricing with important airline
suppliers.”
For more information on how Yapta’s airfare price tracking
technology delivers real savings to managed travel programs, visit
Yapta.com.
About EgenciaEgencia makes business travel better by
making it more connected and complete. Egencia puts travelers at
the heart of business travel, continuously supporting them with
solutions that are more engaging and effective. Driven by consumer
insights and technology investments from parent company, Expedia,
Inc., Egencia connects everything travelers need – content,
technology, service and reporting – in one place. Egencia provides
services in more than 65 countries. To connect with Egencia, visit
https://www.egencia.com and our blog at
https://www.egencia.com/public/blog/
© 2016 Egencia, LLC. All rights reserved. Expedia, Egencia, and
the Egencia logo and Get Ahead are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Expedia, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. CST
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About YaptaPrices drop. We alert. You save. Yapta’s
corporate travel solutions, FareIQ and RoomIQ, enable companies to
extend their T&E budgets, boost traveler compliance and attain
essential program-specific data. Constantly tracking booked
airfares and hotel rooms, Yapta sends instant alerts when prices
drop. Launched in 2007, we pioneered the category of travel price
assurance, and have delivered more than $650 million in savings
alerts to businesses and consumers. Yapta guarantees bottom-line
savings. www.yapta.com
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