transavia.com Signs Up For Travelport Merchandising Platform

Travelport and low cost carrier transavia.com today, 17 September, jointly announced a new distribution deal that will see transavia.com become the next low cost carrier participant in the aggregated shopping component of Travelport’s merchandising platform that was launched in April this year.

transavia.com operates low cost charter and scheduled flights to over 140 destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agreement will also see Travelport provide transavia.com customers with the ability to pre-book baggage via Travelport’s ancillary services, ensuring a seamless booking process for our agencies.

Travelport Aggregated Shopping, an industry first, consolidates within the same screen, shopping results from traditional carriers who connect through ATPCO with those from low cost carriers and others who prefer to connect with Travelport via an API connection.

The new technology negates the need to shop and compare across several screens and allows travel agents to book both types of carriers in the same booking flow.

Simply put, Aggregated Shopping gives airlines the ability to distribute their content in the way they choose to, and for travel agents to be able to sell this through a consistent, efficient workflow.

Travelport Aggregated Shopping, which forms part of the ground-breaking Travelport Merchandising Platform, was unveiled last April with launch carrier easyJet who said they were impressed by the flexible approach Travelport was offering airlines.

Since then, Jet2.com, a leading leisure low cost carrier operating based in the UK, and Norwegian, the second largest airline in Scandinavia, have also become Aggregated Shopping participants.