NEWS / PRODUCT LAUNCH
FAREBREEZE.COM, WORLD’S FIRST CHARTER FLIGHT GDS LAUNCHED
TRAVELSHORE, a leading travel technology company has announced an exclusive GDS platform for Charter flight operations
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RAVELSHORE, a leading travel technology company has launched, www. farebreeze.com, the world’s first Global Distribution System (GDS) platform for Charter flight operations. It’s the first of its kind GDS for Flight charter agents for publishing their available schedules and to enable other agents to buy tickets worldwide. As the existing GDS systems are publishing only scheduled flights as ever in history, Farebreeze has relevance for today and way beyond. According to Mr. Alex T. Jacob, Founder & CEO of TravelShore, The ever-changing world, and global travel need more innovative prod-
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ucts and technology edge to cater to the post-COVID 19 travellers. Recently, charter flight operations across the globe had a giant leap to transfer stranded passengers of various nations at many parts of the world, due to COVID 19 travel restrictions imposed globally and evacuation flights to bring back citizens of the respective countries to their native land. Many leading business houses and hospitals also depend on charter flights for safety and health emergencies in this uncertain pandemic time. Apart from this, by this time, most of the charters from the Middle East countries are now added from various points to points. Mr. Peter Morrison (New Zealand), World President of Skal International inaugurated Farebreeze in the presence of world leaders of the travel and tourism industry in a virtual meeting conducted on 16 Sept 2020. Skal International is the only global tourism professionals’ association with all verticals of the trade as members. It was established in 1934 having a presence in 100+ countries with around 14000 members from the Airline, Hotel, Travel agent, Tour Operator, and all connected with tourism sectors. Mr. Alex T Jacob is also the Charter President of Skal International
Trivandrum. “Our new GDS system will be helpful to engage every traveller and customer of our principle agents with the rich content of the flight schedules available on the system. It’s also a unique GDS reservation system designed to promote the charter flights and boutique offerings through a customized inventory distribution system. We have incorporated an easy booking & fulfillment workflow that makes the vendors and subscribers empowered for a productive business engagement. Vendor agents get the opportunity to manage the Public fares, Private fares, and Promotional fares to All/ Specific agents, while Subscriber Agents shall further Mark-Up the fares to engage the consumers”. Alex Jacob TRAVELSHORE based at Technopark, Trivandrum, India established in 2013 is providing endto-end travel solutions in Travel & tourism sector with B2b, B2c, Corporate booking engines, and other customised solutions worldwide. Travelshore is also the technology partner for UFTAA the Global Apex body of Travel Agents in which Travel agents’ associations of worldwide countries are members.
