It’s the day-to-day job of any travel agent to book flight tickets. And the value that travel agents bring to the table, especially when it comes to flight ticket booking, for customers cannot be ignored. By using their expertise, industry connections and an online travel booking portal, travel agents seamlessly book affordable air tickets for their customers.
But at times, when the flight ticket booking portal is not equipped with powerful features like an advanced search engine, filtration, sorting, etc., it becomes difficult for travel agents to search through different flight options. Fewer options make air booking a hassle. This makes it difficult for them to offer customised flight, cabin, and airline options to their customers.
To avoid all these problems and make any travel agent’s air booking experience hassle-free, we are introducing our New Air Availability Page on Riya Connect, a B2B travel portal built exclusively for our travel partners. Using this, travel agents can book not only flights but also buses, cars, rail, cruises, travel insurance and many other services. The New Availability Page is easier, quicker and more hassle-free than before as we aim to make every travel booking experience an effortless process for all our travel agents.
New Availability Page For Air Booking on Riya Connect
So, want to know what we have to offer on Riya Connect’s New Availability Page for Air Booking? Here’s a list.
1. Global Search Engine For All Flights & Fares & Instant GDS, LCC & NDC Fare Results
On the New Availability Page, we have included a Global Search Engine. This will instantly give a full-fledged list of all GDS (Global Distribution System), LCC (Low Cost Carrier), and NDC (New Distribution Capability) fares for flights across multiple airlines. This will help any travel agent view and compare different flight options and offer their customers a range of affordable fares. One of the many capabilities of the global search engine is that it gives results so fast, reducing the time it takes to book while increasing the number of bookings.
2. All Cabin With Multiple Flight & Fare Options
We have included a feature where a travel agent can choose their customers’ preferred cabin choice from a variety of available cabin options. The various cabin options available are Economy, Premium Economy, Business and First Class. Travel agents can filter out seats from these cabin options according to their choices and do flight ticket booking. Also, this option will help clients to search those flight combinations where multiple cabins are involved, also system is capable of showing the lowest available fare in all cabins.
3. Advanced Search Options
The availability of advanced search options such as Stop Filtration, Time Filtration and Fare filtration enable travel agents to search more filtered flights. This further makes it easier for travel agents to book from a vast range of flight options.
- Stop Filtration Options: All, Non-Stop, 1 Stop, 1+ Stops
- Time Filtration Options: All, Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night
- Fare Filtration Options: All, Refundable, Non-refundable
4. On-Page Filtration & Sorting
There is an On-Page Filtration & Sorting Option which helps in applying filters based on price, stops, departure/arrival time, airline, connecting airports, fare type, trip/layover duration and many more. With this filtering, a travel agent can make air bookings based on their preferences.
5. Change Class Option with GDS view
Using the Change class option on the New Air Availability Page, a travel agent can choose a higher RBD based on passenger requirements and at the same time can view several seats available in each RBD.
6. On-Page Increase Agency Mark-up
It’s a very advantageous feature available on the New Availability Page for any travel agent. This option will help the client to increase their earnings/mark-up on a transactional level.
7. Customisable In-Send Quote Via Email
With this feature, a travel agent can send quotations of flight availability with/without fare along with personalised remarks. These can be sent via email.
8. Quick Sorting
With this wonderful feature, a travel agent can sort flights based on the cheapest or quickest flight options. This just enhances the overall air booking experience for any travel agent.
9. Option To View In-flight Details
With the information icon corresponding to each flight, a travel agent is able to view in-flight details easily and be aware of the services available on that particular flight.
10. Quick-View Ancillary Services
We have made available coloured images of meals on the booking page for a travel agent’s better understanding.
11. Instant Nearby Airport (50 Km) Results
This feature would be very useful for travel agents. It will help them get the cheapest fare if available with nearby airports within 50 km.
We hope that all these beneficial features will enhance any travel agent’s air booking experience. With these, travel agents will be able to offer a wide range of flight options to their customers as well as valuable services thereby maintaining cordial relationships with them. Visit Riya Connect to check our New Air Availability Page and start booking flights instantly.
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