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Call Distribution
Service

  • Dedicated 800 numbers
  • Networking System - instant forwarding of calls between on-site reservation centers

Reservation Process
Service

  • Customized scripts (Company)
  • Customized scripts (Agency)
  • Customized profiles
  • Air Reservation Booking
  • Airline reservations - courtesy only
  • Ticketless airline processing
  • Itinerary documentation
  • Recapping reservation
  • Reporting documentation (i.e. dollar savings sort fields, name field remarks)
  • Enter extra fields for all six preferred airline contracts
  • Transmit frequent flyer information
  • Credit Card itinerary through (brand name) Credit Card
  • Rail reservations
  • Pricing records
  • Multiple res with one phone call
  • Personal and business trips combined
  • Reservation, changes and reconfirmation's for domestic/international reservations for vendors and visiting international Company employees
  • Bookings for non - profile travelers
  • Special meal requests
  • Car bookings (non-commissionable)
  • Non - CRS carrier reservations and data input
  • Non - ARC carrier reservations and data input
  • Limo bookings
  • Authorization from travelers and travel arrangers at certain divisions
  • Special cargo reservations (i.e. pet, equipment, baggage, etc.)

Interviews/Applicants
Service

  • Set up direct bills at hotels
  • Direct bill cars

Hotel Bookings
Service

  • Domestic hotels through CRS
  • Domestic hotels booked direct
  • Hotel availability compared with the three rate levels (Company, Agency, and promotional)
  • International hotel Credit Cards transmitted

Company Hotel Program Administration
Service

  • Negotiated rate loaded in Agency database
  • All rates proofed: contracts vs. blue book and agency database
  • BARS built by city to show preferred properties
  • Audit performed to be sure hotel information is displayed correctly in CRS
  • Exceptions sent back to hotels to adjust
  • Scripts built in computer system to double check reservations

Trip Monitor
Service

  • Fare and Route Monitor
  • Trip Monitor Report

International Services
Service

  • Split ticket for creative faring
  • Send reservation to airline and agency rate desks
  • IDOC script
  • Calculate partial international refunds
  • Use of agency international offices overseas (agency and Network)
  • Associate participation on agency quarterly international council meetings
  • Researching train schedules
  • War Zone Report

Visa/Passport Application Services
Service

  • Ordering and maintenance of applications
  • Processing visas and passports

Quality Control Process
Service

  • Custom check - point of sale QC

Ticketing
Service

  • Split ticketing for negotiated fares
  • Exchanges
  • Ticketing with upgrades
  • Prepaids
  • Handwrites
  • Voids
  • Refunds
  • ARC processing
  • Train Client employee STP attendants

Ticketing Delivery System
Service

  • Federal Express preparation, equipment entries and cost
  • Use of interoffice ticket distribution
  • Use of teleticket (i.e. Mutual of Omaha airport pickup)
  • Local Agency office(s)
  • Special deliveries

Profile Maintenance
Service

  • Continual updates of individuals preferences
  • 900 most frequent travelers contacted to review profile
  • Deletions

En-route Emergency Services
Service

  • 24-hour assistance via 800 number- new res. changes, flight information, prepaids, res only's, etc.
  • Customer Service Functions

Customer Service Functions
Service

  • Hotel no-shows
  • Debit memos
  • Recall commission processing
  • Credit memos
  • Business reply card responses
  • Supplier issues/letter (i.e. car was dirty)
  • Ticket copy requests
  • Lost Ticket Applications
  • Credit Card temporary credit
  • Issue resolution
  • Track loss luggage
  • Obtain after hours upgrades

Client Travel Policy Enforcement And Exceptions
Service

  • Air policy/saving thresholds
  • Car policy
  • Hotel policy-Rail policy
  • Security requirements
  • Out-of-policy issues
  • Class of service
  • Non-preferred suppliers
  • Preferred hotel compliance

Personal Reservations
Service

  • Personal air, car, hotel reservations

Travel And Entertainment
Service

  • T & E to support (x number of) associates (training, meetings, cover staffing between 11 on-site reservation centers)

Associate Performance Management
Service

  • Annual performance reviews
  • Individual Development Plans
  • Interviewing and hiring
  • Recurrent training
  • Business Unite meeting
  • On-site reservations center meetings
  • Agency management meetings

Accounting Support Within Business Unit
Service

  • Check request processing
  • Soft dollar ticketing processing
  • Airline club membership processing

Document and Supplies Ordering, Distribution and Inventory Control
Service

  • Order itinerary stock (Agency or custom)
  • Order ticket stock
  • Order and distribute business reply survey cards
  • Order ticket jackets (Agency or custom)

Operations Support
Service

  • Company Daily Briefing
  • Company business unit operations manual

Mobile Reservations Support
Service

  • Agency associate that covers all 11 reservation locations with on-site presence due to vacations and illness. Salary, payroll taxes, benefits t&e; for 52 weeks.

Account Management
Service

  • Business planning sessions
  • Client forums and focus groups (domestic and international)
  • Traveler/arranger seminars
  • Implementation of new business
  • Quarterly meetings/reviews
  • Maintain and file itinerary copy for two years
  • Assist in administering the (name of airline) airline equity account

Corporate Reports/Executive Summaries
Service

  • Receive monthly and quarterly travel management reports
  • Special report requests
  • Five individual executive summary reports produced quarterly and a yearly roll-up
  • Overall Company quarterly executive summary review
  • Management report development
  • Data processing, storage and retrieval (VISION)

Additional on-Site Services By Reservation Center
Service

  • Extensive VIP bookings and upgrades
  • Extensive Limo reservations

Service

  • Monitor upgrade program for VIP's throughout Company
  • Travel authorizations international
  • Upgrade frequent travelers from coach to first class
  • Assist Company Technologies Travel Coordinator in reviewing Agency and Credit Card's reports for policy deviations
  • Meeting planning

Service

  • Extensive meeting planning
  • Frequent flyer buy-back program processing
  • Travel authorizations all international
  • Travel authorizations Company Medical travelers
  • Monitor ACD system
  • Hardcopy $100 + travel exceptions
  • Manual count of monthly fare errors
  • Assist European Agency with hotel bookings
  • Reserve lunch/dinner and local activities for site visitors
  • Assist Travel Manager in audit expense report for policy offenders

Service

  • Meeting planning
  • Travel authorizations domestic and international
  • Provide schedules for (x number) city pairs
  • Obtain temporary credit on (brand name) Credit Card for travelers

Service

  • Obtain upgrades for VIP on (applicable airlines)

Service

  • Add hotels not booked by Agency to itinerary as courtesy to travelers
  • Travel authorizations domestic and international
  • Meeting planning
  • Assist with Travel Coordinator to ensure void and refunds are credit on monthly Credit Card statements
  • Obtain upgrades for VIP's on international/domestic flights

Service

  • Assist European Agency with U.S. hotel bookings
  • Reserve (name of airline) airline club rooms
  • Meeting planning
  • airline club reservations

Service

  • Travel authorizations for domestic
  • Travel authorizations for all international all divisions
  • Call and get temporary airfare credit on traveler's Credit Card

Service

  • Excessive limo bookings
  • Extensive meeting planning
  • Schedule off-site conferences and (name of airline) airline club meeting rooms
  • Adding hotels not booked by Agency to travel itinerary
  • Extensive upgrading on (name of airline) airline card members from coach to first class within 24 hours of flight departure

Service

  • Meeting planning
  • Extensive upgrading for (names of airlines)
  • Travel Authorizations for International Only
  • Obtain temporary credit on Credit Card for travelers

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