1time Airline launches 1time Holidays powered by Sell-It Suite
01. Sep, 2009
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1time, one of South Africa’s major low cost carriers has launched a domestic and regional tour operator called 1time Holidays using RWA’s Sell-It Suite reservation system.
1time Holidays is an additional service offered by the airline to its passengers. The tour operator business is promoting the destinations to which 1time flies, particularly Zanzibar and launched with “Amazzzzing Holiday Deals to Zanzibar” for September to November.
The Sell-It Suite system is providing 1time with the ability to create fixed and dynamic holiday packages consisting of hotel and other ground products combined with 1time’s own flights. The Sell-It Suite system integrates directly with 1time’s flight reservation system for access to real-time flight availability within the travel package offering, including pricing and booking. 1time are using Sell-It’s Inventory Manager to load and manage hotel contracts, car rental agreements and other ground products. Business rules set up inside Inventory Manager determine how these ground products can be combined with 1time flights to generate the 1time Holidays offers.
1time Airline
Commenting on the launch of 1time Holidays and the selection of Sell-It Suite Desmond O’Connor, commercial director at 1time says, “1time has grown dramatically in the last 5 years in the South African market place carrying over 1.6 million passengers in2008. A lot of our success has come from streamlined and efficient internet booking systems, and it was vital that any system we added was cost effective, reliable, efficient, and more importantly, offered ease of use to our customers which is crucial to our predominantly online business. We did a thorough investigation of all available systems on the market, and Sell-It stood out in all areas. Further to that, our staff enjoyed the training on the system, and found it simple touse, making it a plus for our staff and our customers. 1time have big plans for our Holidays business and we are proud to have RWA and Sell-It as partners as we move forward.”
The majority of 1time Holidays’ business will be driven through the Internet using Sell-It Online and there will also be a small call centre taking phone bookings using Sell-It’s Bookings Manager. The financial aspects of the Holidays operation will be managed in Sell-It’s Finance Manager, a complete, integrated multi-currency finance management system. RWA is also providing 1time with a complete Facilities Managed (FM) service that includes hosting of the complete Sell-It Suite installation including the online booking facilities on the 1time holidays web site.
Mark Bradbury, Director of Business Development at RWA stated, “It is always great to see a new customer go live with our system and we are particularly excited when it is linked to the launch of a new business. Our two teams have worked very well together and we are looking forward to a long lasting and successful business relationship between our two companies.”
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If 1time keep pushing like this then soon they will be bigger than kulula