Testimonials

"Virgin Blue Airlines Group has already experienced a 68% increase in car hire bookings in April 2010 through the new website compared to the same period last year which is a great result for the first month using a multi supplier model."
Jess McIntyre, Partnership Manager
Velocity Rewards, Virgin Blue

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

"bmibaby customers will be offered a car hire product in full knowledge that they are looking at an unrestricted, highly competitive view of the market - the supermarket approach whereby all options are offered in a transparent way at the best prices."
Ian Stewart, Head of e-commerce and partnerships at bmibaby.

"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 reap the best possible rewards, and their passengers also get access to the best car rental rates available."
Mr. Richard Stokes, SITA's Senior Vice President, Passenger and Travel

"...Not only did the new solution generate incremental revenue, but it generated further incremental revenue each time we added a new car rental company to the list of suppliers offered...a choice of ALL the top brands is essential to maximizing car rental revenue."
Miranda Scott Director of Business Development, Hawaiian Airlines

"Over the last 2 years we have worked with CarTrawler to find the best way of presenting car rental to our multi website visitors. We are now in a position where Car Hire is the principle income stream from our portfolio of travel websites. This is mainly due to the fact that with CarTrawler’s help and assistance we are able to offer fantastic (in most cases unbeatable!) prices, due to their multi-supplier technology, and reassure the customers that they have all the support they need through the CarTrawler call center."
Gary Ingram, CEO, Plus-Four.com

"During the first two weeks in January 2008, when Blue1 launched its new car booking engine, the Company has doubled its revenue on car hire!"
Juha Jarvinen, Senior Vice-President Commercial, Blue1

According to SITA, which provides integrated IT solutions to 100 airline customers around the world, more than 4 percent of all airline passengers will rent a car from an airline web site - if it’s offered. That makes car rental a "hugely important source of ancillary revenue for airlines," says Richard Stokes, SITA’s senior vice president for passenger and travel solutions. In fact, SITA recently signed an agreement with Dublin-based CarTrawler, whose car rental distribution platform serves up inventory from 25,000 car rental locations in 175 countries. Linking with CarTrawler, Stokes continues, "ensures that our airline customers will reap the best possible rewards, and their passengers will get access to the best car rental rates available." SITA maintains corporate offices in Geneva, Brussels and Amsterdam but has regional offices around the world, including Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Richard Stokes, SITA’s Senior Vice President for Passenger and Travel

Skyscanner users are independent people who use the web to research the best deals across their full travel itinerary, not just flights. Cars are an essential element of many trips - leisure or business – and we are delighted that users can now book their car hire with Skyscanner too. Hotels and holidays are next in line to be added to the Skyscanner site and we’ll be launching these in the near future.
Frank Skivington, Skyscanner’s Commercial VP.

CarTrawler is the largest provider of car rental booking solutions in the world, with an audience of over 200 million passengers. The fact that CarTrawler provides us with a multi-supplier option in all of our key destinations made the choice a simple and obvious one for us.
Henny á Líknargøtu, Marketing Coordinator of Atlantic Airways

We have been seeking a partner to help us bolster our online car rental offering, and CarTrawler is the right choice for us. We have invested heavily in our online distribution system and we have seen an exponential increase of bookings made through this channel. Over a few months we have seen this channel grow substantially, and now 23% of all our revenue is generated through this medium. We believe that CarTrawler’s ability to seamlessly integrate car rental content from a long list of top quality car hire companies into all our passenger touch points not only helps to increase ancillary product revenues, but equally important gives our passengers a wider choice and better services when they book car rental through our portal www.airmalta.com.
Dr Brock Friesen, Chief Commercial Officer, Air Malta

Ancillary revenue is a core part of our growth strategy, and car rental forms a significant portion of that. CarTrawler is the perfect partner to enable us to give our customers the right car rental options at critical points throughout the booking flow. We know this deal is going to make a real impact on our bottom line.
Gheorghe Racaru, General Manager of Blue Air

"In CarTrawler, we have found a Company that understands the airline ancillary revenue model as well as having an inside track on the car hire business. Their ability to integrate car rental content from a long list of top quality car hire companies - seamlessly - into all our passenger touch points is delivering a significant boost to our non air revenue."
Lars Sande, Sales Director, Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA

"Ancillary revenue is a core part of our growth strategy, and car rental forms a significant portion of that. Offering our passengers the best possible instrument to facilitate choice was our central goal in selecting CarTrawler as our partner."
Jaime Lioret, VP Marketing, ClickAir

Insiders' Observations

4% Leverage

Next time you’re negotiating with an airline, check to see if your preferred car rental company isn’t represented on the carrier's web site. It could provide another bit of leverage.

According to SITA, which provides integrated IT solutions to 100 airline customers around the world, more than 4 percent of all airline passengers will rent a car from an airline web site — if it’s offered. That makes car rental a "hugely important source of ancillary revenue for airlines," says Richard Stokes, SITA’s senior vice president for passenger and travel solutions. In fact, SITA recently signed an agreement with Dublin-based CarTrawler, whose car rental distribution platform serves up inventory from 12,000 car rental locations in 134 countries. Linking with CarTrawler, Stokes continues, "ensures that our airline customers will reap the best possible rewards, and their passengers will get access to the best car rental rates available." SITA maintains corporate offices in Geneva, Brussels and Amsterdam but has regional offices around the world, including Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Richard Stokes, SITA’s Senior Vice President for Passenger and Travel

“Business with CarTrawlers is growing at a really fast rate now, really great to see!
You guys are fabulous business partners, it is a pleasure doing business!”
Sue , Financial Director