”It is with great pleasure to inform you that the CarTrawler product offering with its commercial flexibility, languages, providers, currency handling and above all the obvious technical expertise and flexibility in the provision of such interfaces, won hands down.”

Martin Burge, Affiliate and Partnerships Manager,
Skyscanner Flight Search

"Incorporating the CarTrawler procurement capability will enable 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

"We will be able to offer our customers the best choice and brands on the market and benefit our bottom line at the same time, and are particularly pleased to achieve the maximum potential conversion through CarTrawler's dynamic channel management technology."

Lorenzo Lorenti, Commercial Director,
Myair

"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 passager touch points will deliver 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 passagers the best possible instrument to facilitate choice was our central goal in selecting CarTrawler as our partner."

Jaime Lioret, VP Marketing,
ClickAir

"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 avaliable."

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 CarTrawlers 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

"Based on our own customer feedback, and bearing in mind our emphasis on quality and value, we decided to present a neutral, consumer friendly offering to the users of www.lot.com. Since our adoption of this model, consumer feedback has been extremely positive, and we are now renting more cars than when we had a single supplier offering. "

Mr. Radoslaw Dutkowski, Head of E Commerce,
Lot Polish Airlines

"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

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