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Travelfusion Announces New Partnership with Blue Air

Kathryn Frengs — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:23:41 +0000

In an exciting move that will hugely expand their Eastern European coverage of travel content and data, London-based Travelfusion Ltd. announces a new partnership with Romania’s smart flying carrier Blue Air. The world leader in Direct Connect travel solutions, Travelfusion welcomes Romania’s first Low Cost Carrier (LCC) Blue Air to their already rich customer base.

This new partnership continues Travelfusion’s commitment to be the first travel technology company to partner with all LCCs around the world. Founded in 2004, BlueAir is a revolutionary company serving more than thirty international cities in Europe, Asia and even the Caribbean and offering customers extremely low web fares.

Moshe Rafiah, Travelfusion’s founder and CEO states, “our partnership with BlueAir is another great win for our leading leisure and corporate agencies around the world providing them with immediate access to some of the best flights from/to Romania and Eastern Europe. This is further validation to the great success of the Direct Connect model that offers airlines the most cost effective distribution and widest reach”.

Blue Air CEO Sherif Ussama comments: ”Blue Air is the market leader in Romania and more than 4.5 million passengers have chosen the Blue Air flights over the last fiveyears. In 2010, the company expects around 2.2 million customers and revenues of over 200€ million. The new partnership with Travelfusion will make it easier for us to reach these figures.”

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Travelfusion Announces New Partnership with VIA Rail

Kathryn Frengs — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:50:09 +0000

I am quite excited to announce Travelfusion’s new partnership with Canadian rail giant VIA Rail. Train travel is an increasingly popular option for travellers who have concerns about the environment, or just would rather take their time enjoying the scenery on their journey. We are so happy to be working with VIA Rail and look forward to helping customers take advantage of the Canadian railways as a fantastic way to travel.

I’ve attached specific details from our recent press release below for those interested in specific information.

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In a groundbreaking move, Travelfusion announces its recent partnership with VIA Rail Canada (www.viarail.ca). This agreement makes Travelfusion the first travel distributor in the world to offer both airline and rail data in a single application programming interface (API) call.

Clearly the start of a trend in growing rail coverage in all parts of the world, Travelfusion is especially excited to partner with VIA Rail. An environmentally responsible way to travel, rail has become a preferred transportation option for many travellers worldwide.

Moshe Rafiah, Travelfusion’s founder and CEO states, “We are delighted to work with VIA Rail for the Direct Connect distribution of their Canadian rail content to our worldwide agency customer base. Our model offers VIA Rail a cost-effective way to sell their content and provides our customers with the first solution of its kind that combines in a single XML API call, fares from airlines and rail with full comparison on time, cost and locations for travel.”

VIA Rail’s Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Steve Del Bosco comments, “We are confident that this partnership with Travelfusion to harness innovation in the use of distribution technology will facilitate multi-modal air-rail journeys by International visitors to Canada.”

New Facebook Fan Page

Mark Ellison — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:27:40 +0000

Check out Travelfusion’s new Facebook page where you can become a fan and connect with us! Most corporate newsrooms are boring, static, and sometimes days late getting info up. This is not good. Our Facebook page, on the other hand, will highlight some of the cheapest flights out there and link up with this very blog, displaying up-to-date news and other information about our business.

But more than anything this is a space for you, our fans and users, to make your own. It’s easy to upload photos, engage with us and each other, post events that are happening, add notes about upcoming travel, or write reviews of trips you’ve just recently taken.

So it’s an information portal and interactive newsroom. Cool, huh?