Aeronology Connexus pact

THE new technology agreement between the Peter Lacazebacked Aeronology and Greater China TMC, Connexus Travel (TD breaking news) will expose the Aussie tech startup to a potential catchment area of over 7.5 billion people, according to Aeronology CEO Russell Carstensen.

Formerly known as Swire Travel Limited, Connexus has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Hsinchu City, with Carstensen saying new opportunities for the business will be driven using Connexus’ connections in the market.

Connexus CEO Gloria Slethaug said the company was focused on new technologies to enhance internal work efficiencies with robotic and integrated content for online transactions, NDC and travel industry API content.

“Asia is changing rapidly; the volume of transactions in the Asian market is growing yearon-year while the costs are on the rise, and the old manual processes will not keep up with this demand,” she said.

“That’s why we have partnered with Aeronology.

“They are globally cloud-based, work in APIs, web services we trust, and are in the process of being NDC certified and they are very agile.

“I’ve known Russell for many years and he has a history of delivery,” Slethaug added.

The deal has been finalised despite the current difficult conditions in the region, with Slethaug saying her team felt the time was right to start the longterm evolution of the business. “We are playing the long game.” Aeronology recently signed other deals with Sabre and Express Travel Group (TD 19 Dec 2019) and also announced it would make its applications and services multilingual.