This week’s musings, reflections and observations…
1. Despite the profundity of bad news about the travel industry, I continue to think that the industry’s financial woes present unprecedented opportunities for the travel affiliate channel to establish itself as a strong and valuable partner for travel suppliers worldwide (see item number 5 in my May 11th [...]
Tag Archives: Airline Affiliate Programs
Things I Think I Think - June 08, 2009
June 8, 2009 – 11:35 am
Airlines ‘Open Kimonos’ for Airline Consolidators and Travel Affiliates
June 5, 2009 – 1:49 pm
Long a secretive and shady niche in the global travel industry, the shroud of mystery surrounding airline consolidators and the airlines that work with them is rapidly lifting. Once loathe to publicly revealing their name in conjunction with their distribution partners in this opaque channel, airlines are now ‘opening their kimonos’, and loudly broadcasting [...]
Air Travel Is For the Dogs - And Travel Affiliates!
June 3, 2009 – 5:59 am
The pet travel niche keeps growing, and that’s very good news for travel affiliates. A new airline, Pet Airways, is set to begin its scheduled “pawssenger” service on July 14th, and the travel affiliate channel is a key element of their distribution strategy.
TravelDividends wrote about the growing travel affiliate sales opportunities in the pet [...]
Delta Air Lines, Commissions and Distribution - Déjà Vu All Over Again
May 10, 2009 – 3:24 pm
Delta Air Lines (DL) stunned some folks in the travel and travel affiliate marketing industries on May 6th when it announced that they would pay a special 10% commission on all flights and fare classes on bookings made by June 30th for travel through December 15th, 2009 from New York City area airports to Mexico, [...]
Airline Programs
April 29, 2009 – 8:54 am
Although airlines were among the first travel industry suppliers to embrace Affiliate Marketing, not all airlines offer affiliate programs. This is particularly true in the United States, where as a result of intense consolidation and competition brought on by airline deregulation beginning in 1978, today 10 airlines hold more than 82% market share*, [...]
Airline Consolidator Programs
April 29, 2009 – 8:52 am
The airline consolidator industry has been around since the introduction of commercial aviation. When airlines find themselves with excess inventory that they know they can’t easily ‘move’, they rely on consolidators as a means of both offloading the inventory at ‘distressed prices, while at the same time protecting their brand against commoditization and preventing losing [...]
Private Jet Charter Programs
April 29, 2009 – 7:48 am
OneSky Jets - OneSky Jets’ model is based on aggregating US aircraft charter operators into a national network, and providing these charter airlines and end-user travelers with an automated, web-based system to reserve and pay for the rentals. OneSky provides on-demand service, which means that their customers pay only for the trip they take, rather [...]
