Partners

SITA and CarTrawler

SITA has partnered with CarTrawler and has integrated its car rental distribution platform within the SITA Horizon portfolio of passenger management solutions used by over 100 airlines worldwide.

The CarTrawler platform enables partners to supply car rental in 135 countries at over 17,000 car rental locations across the world. The deal allows SITA to offer the CarTrawler solution to its airline customers, enabling them to realize significant revenue growth through ancillary car rental sales.

SITA's Horizon platform is used by over 100 airlines, flying over 110 million passengers annually, and is the world's most popular neutral, multi-host passenger reservations and management information system.

The partnership demonstrates that SITA can provide value to its airline customers, well beyond the traditional passenger management function, and reinforces SITA's commitment to generating value and additional revenue for those customers. Typically over 4% of all airline passengers will rent a car if offered by the airline on the airline website.

"This agreement complements SITA's E-Commerce strategy, and echoes what our customers - and the market - have been telling us: that car rental is a hugely important source of ancillary revenue for airlines CarTrawler is the first offering we have seen that matches our own standards of technology and delivery. Its platform and worldwide coverage ensures that our airline customers will reap the best possible rewards, and their passengers will get access to the best car rental rates available."
Richard Stokes, Senior Vice-President for Passenger and Travel Solutions, SITA.

About SITA

SITA is the world's leading service provider of integrated IT business solutions and communication services for the air transport industry. SITA manages complex communication solutions for its air transport, government and GDS customers over the world's most extensive communication network, complemented by consultancy in the design, deployment and integration of communication services. Its broad range of airline and airport IT applications and services includes airport operations and integrated baggage services, common use and desktop services, flight operations and air-to-ground communications and end-to-end airline distribution and fares services.

SITA has two main subsidiaries: OnAir, which is leading the race to bring in-flight mobile telephony to the market, and CHAMP Cargosystems, the world's only IT Company solely dedicated to air cargo. SITA also operates two joint ventures providing services to the air transport community: Aviareto for aircraft asset management and CertiPath for secure electronic identity management. In addition, SITA sponsors .aero, the Internet top level domain reserved exclusively for aviation.

SITA covers 220 countries and territories and the head office is in Geneva, Switzerland. SITA had consolidated revenues of US$1.481 billion (€1.194 billion) in 2006. For more information, please visit: www.sita.aero

Datalex and CarTrawler

Datalex and CarTrawler have entered into a strategic agreement which combines the power and flexibility of the Datalex Travel Distribution Platform (TDP), with the multi-source procurement capability of CarTrawler's Car Rental Distribution system. The core addition to the Datalex flagship product is available to all users of TDP - and allows its customers to instantly access any number of CarTrawler's 500 car hire companies, across 135 countries and 17,000 car rental locations in real time, with a single uniform and unbiased view.

"Incorporating the CarTrawler procurement capability enables rich, normalized and real time content procurement from multiple car rental sources which aligned with the reservations and distribution capability of TDP provides significant value-add to our customers."
Ornagh Hoban, VP Marketing & Strategy, Datalex.

About Datalex

Datalex is a leading provider of travel distribution software and solutions that enable global travel industry suppliers and distributors deliver increased content and choice to their customers across multiple sales channels, while enabling record reductions in distribution costs. Its customers include major airlines and travel distribution organizations such as Aer Lingus, Flight Centre, Philippine Airlines, SAS, Saudi Arabian Airlines, South African Airways, STA, Travel, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company maintains offices in Europe, Singapore, Australia and USA. Datalex is a publicly held company traded on the Irish Stock Exchange (symbol: DLE, and also OTC: DLEXY). For more information, please visit: www.datalex.com.

ezRez and CarTrawler

ezRez has partnered with CarTrawler and has integrated its car rental distribution solutions so as to give their customers access to unparalleled content with 515 car rental companies in 135 countries.

About ezRez

ezRez is a travel software company that allows clients to offer a variety of travel products including flights, hotels, car rentals, activities, and travel insurance, whether standalone or in combination with others, to any consumer, anywhere in the world. With a robust plug and play travel solution delivered through the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, ezRez enables any company to launch a fully functioning online travel agency functionality with complete brand control and configurability.

Farelogix and CarTrawler

Farelogix has entered into a strategic agreement with CarTrawler for accessing global car rental content for Africa, Americas, Asia & Europe.

About Farelogix

Farelogix is a leading provider of lower-cost, high value distribution and optimization technology to the global travel industry. Farelogix counts among its customers some of the largest travel companies in the world. The Farelogix business model focuses on the delivery of solutions that lower the unit cost of distribution for both Travel Sellers and Travel Suppliers. For Travel Sellers (Travel Management Companies - TMCs), Farelogix offers the FLX™ Platform, which provides travel content sourcing management, normalization, and transactional business rules integration.  Farelogix seamlessly accesses content from virtually any travel data source and gives customers full control over what rules are applied and how travel data is presented at the agent point-of-sale. TMC's use the Farelogix FLX Platform to simultaneously increase agent productivity and improve their end-customer value proposition. For Travel Suppliers, (airlines and others), Farelogix provides a platform and functionality for direct distribution (non-GDS) channel control and optimization, including the capability for custom content delivery and merchandising. The FLX Platform for airlines offers functionality comparable to that of legacy GDS systems, plus additional value added features, customizable to individual airlines, at a price point that averages 75% less than GDS distribution costs.

Travel Tech Consulting and CarTrawler

Travel Tech Consulting, Inc. focuses on emerging Internet technologies that are at the heart of the continued growth and success of the online travel segment, As a result, they have chosen CarTrawler as their car rental provider of choice to enable them to access global car rental content in 22 languages and multiple currencies.

About Travel Tech Consulting

Travel Tech Consulting, Inc., is a leading provider of consulting services to the global travel and technology industries. Headquartered near the heart of the Silicon Valley, Travel Tech Consulting, Inc. has been providing analysis, marketing and procurement services to clients since 1995 and is committed to providing insight in how new technology will impact the travel industry. www.traveltechnology.com.

Airtrade International Inc. and CarTrawler

Airtrade International Inc. provides access to CarTrawler through its website at www.vayama.com. Vayama is a new generation of online travel agencies using the latest Web 2.0 technologies and bringing a massive selection of travel products to the international travel consumer.

About Airtrade International Inc.

Airtrade International provides travel agencies, tour operators, and other travel industry service providers, access to an extensive database of net airfares, private inventory, and special wholesale prices that can significantly improve productivity and profit potential.

OpenTravel Alliance

The OpenTravel Alliance is passionate about solving the problems inherent with connecting multiple systems within the complex travel distribution arena.

OpenTravel's mission is to engineer specifications to ensure traveler and supplier information flow smoothly throughout travel, tourism and hospitality. OpenTravel creates, expands and drives adoption of open specifications, including but not limited to the use of XML, for the electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry.  

OpenTravel is comprised of companies representing airlines, car rental firms, hotels, cruise lines, railways, leisure suppliers, service providers, tour operators, travel agencies, solutions providers, technology companies and distributors. Tens of thousands of OpenTravel message structures are in use, carrying tens of millions of messages between trading partners every day.

OpenTravel is a not-for-profit trade association, founded in 1999 by travel companies, with a primary focus on the creation of electronic message structures to facilitate communication between the disparate systems in the global travel industry. Our members actually do the work of identifying what messages are needed, prioritizing the work and creating the messages.

Within the Forum, CarTrawler is contributing specifically to the work of ensuring that information flows smoothly between all parties involved in the tourism industry. OpenTravel creates, expands and drives adoption of open specifications, including but not limited to the use of XML, for the electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry. For more information, please visit: www.opentravel.org

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PCI Security Standards Council

The PCI Security Standards Council is an open global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.

The PCI Security Standards Council’s mission is to enhance payment account data security by driving education and awareness of the PCI Security Standards. The organization was founded by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.

CarTrawler uses the services of Trustwave to ensure our continued PCI compliance status which is required for all merchants. To ensure our compliance, regular security scans are carried out on all external facing applications and websites and checks are also carried out on internal procedures. All of this has been validated by Trustwave who have confirmed that CarTrawler is PCI compliant. For more information, please visit: www.pcisecuritystandards.org

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Nokia and CarTrawler

The CarTrawler car rental application gives Nokia phone users access to the largest selection of car rental options from over 515 leading and independent car rental suppliers in 135 countries in 17,000 city and airport locations, and in 22 languages, allowing them to source all local agencies while also checking availability and price, quoting in multiple currencies, and ensuring high level of consumer satisfaction.

CarTrawler Mobile is the only multi-supplier auto rental solution for cell phones in the world that combines a direct connect for pricing, availability and booking with a GPS-based search and navigation tool – using mobile mapping as the search paradigm. It allows consumers to locate the most relevant car rental offering based on their personal preferences and current location (using GPS enabled handsets). Customers can rank and book available auto rental offers by price, proximity and car type using a real-time connection to CarTrawler's auto rental distribution system, using a map to locate local and nearby rental depots and prices all from their cell phone. Users can book the car using the phone with only one touch (using operator billing), or can use one touch to call the reservation desk applicable. Additionally, users can use the application to get useful information such as nearest petrol station to the return depot, as well as office opening hours, phone numbers etc. This innovation allows consumers to find the best possible price for their auto rental without suffering from "arrival desk mania", or "hotel lobby lock in". For more information, please visit: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Ovi/Featured_Applications/Car_Trawler.xhtml or http://www.cartrawler.com/nokia/CarTrawler_001.avi

About Nokia

Nokia is the world's number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. The Company makes a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. They also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks. www.nokia.com