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Air Canada Offers Agencies Even More Incentives to Keep Profitable
Toronto, 18 June 2008: The news from Air Canada just keeps getting better. ARTA Canada applauds Air Canada's continuing efforts to reward support from the travel agency community by yet another increase in the incentives for agencies to book its popular Tango fares. Air Canada's announcement to further reward agencies with a chance to win weekly prizes in its "Ca$h in with Tango" promotion is proof positive that Air Canada is setting a new, very encouraging direction with the travel agency community.
"This is fantastic! I hope agencies recognize the great opportunity to write a new chapter of mutually beneficial relations with Air Canada. Let's all do our part to show Air Canada that we appreciate their efforts and encourage them to keep up the momentum", said ARTA Canada President Bruce Bishins, CTC.
ARTA Canada reminds agencies that it supports agent usage of FareSpider, a dynamic tool which directly connects to Air Canada's agency web site (ADO) where commissionable Tango fares must be booked. FareSpider automatically logs the agent in with the correct username and password, making the Air Canada ADO booking experience all the more easy and efficient.
FareSpider is a state-of-the-art low fare search and booking system. Originally designed to assist travel agencies in the hosted booking environment, FareSpider has emerged as the preeminent, PC-based application collecting on-demand fare and seat availability data from more than 450 airlines as published by hundreds of mainline airline web sites, GDSs, low cost carrier sites, agency portals, online travel agencies, charter airlines, consolidator and net fare sites, and airline content aggregators, displaying these results in a single, integrated grid view and interface.
FareSpider has become one of the most popular booking tools for airline content outside the GDS environment. As a utility to enhance the booking experience with or without a GDS, FareSpider assists travel agents in efficiently and productively searching, comparing, and booking key airline content through an easy-to-use and intuitive application.
A free, no-obligation 30-day trial of FareSpider is available, and more information, including the free trial registration, is available at: www.farespider.com.
About ARTA Canada
ARTA Canada is the largest non-profit federally incorporated professional association of travel retailers in Canada, the members of which consist exclusively of travel agencies and travel agents. In addition to advocating fair and equitable treatment of travel consumers, ARTA Canada represents the commercial and strategic interests of its member travel agencies and travel agents in a variety of national and provincial domains including regulatory and legislative matters, automation, technology, sales and marketing, and distribution.
ARTA Canada is the strategic partner in Canada of the U.S.-based Association of Retail Travel Agents (ARTA). ARTA Canada is the Canadian member of UFTAA, the United Federation of Travel Agents' Associations. To join ARTA Canada, complete details and online membership application and secure payment are available on the ARTA Canada web site at www.artacanada.ca/join. |
