Jetstar inks Travelport deal

JETSTAR Group has signed a new multi-year deal with Travelport, providing nearly 70,000 travel agencies globally with access to content of all four carriers - Jetstar Airways, Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Pacific and Jetstar Japan.

The arrangement will see Jetstar Group utilise Travelport’s Rich Content & Branding merchandise solution, enabling all four airlines to display their branded fares and ancillary content.

Travelport vice pres Asia Pacific and global sales strategy, air commerce Damian Hickey said that according to the LCC’s recent research, “over 70% of travellers globally still look to travel professionals, like travel agents, for recommendations before making travel bookings”.

“In APAC, it is 80% of all travellers. This demonstrates the continuing relevance of the travel professionals in travellers’ journeys,” Hickey said.

The distribution deal with Travelport provides travel agents with enhanced content and easy access to Jetstar’s ancillary offers, “improving upselling capabilities for both the airline & the agencies”.

Branded fares and ancillary content for JQ, 3K, BL and GK is available using Travelport’s travel commerce platform.

MEANWHILE, Jetstar has named the lucky winners of its recent Co- Pilot Survey which featured in TD.

The winners of a $200 Jetstar flight voucher were Malcolm Leyland, Flight Centre; Christina Hunt, Helloworld Travel; Nigel Patrick Seidelin, First Travel Grp, NZ; Alison Renton, Flight Centre; Michele Clout, Flight Centre, NZ; Simone Borsteli, independent; Lisa Bond, Flight Centre; Rika Rosewarne, TravelManagers; Emma McIsaac, Flight Centre; Kim Hoogstraten, House of Travel, NZ; Toni Fan, independent; Jessica Bellenger, Flight Centre; Marnie Ryan, Flight Centre; Sarah Skidmore, independent, NZ; Ricardo Otazu, House of Travel, NZ; Heather Wilson, independent; Lily Yu, independent, NZ; Karen Smyth, American Express, Naomi Pirhonen, Flight Centre and Stephan Cooke, CT Connections.