LOS ANGELES, CA – USA October 1st, 2008
A revolutionary, under-the-radar technology success named ID90T is changing the way interline ticketing is done for airline employees. Thanks to ID90T's new e-ticketing business model that helps airline employees obtain travel tickets online with just a few clicks of the mouse, the first interlining e-ticket has now been issued, announces Tristan Schukraft, Managing Director, ID90T. "This is a win-win story; win for the airlines that save millions and win for their employees, who receive their most coveted travel perks in a new, more convenient way".
Now that IATA's 100% e-ticketing mandate for revenue passengers has passed, airlines are focusing on automating employee travel with ID90T's innovative e-ticketing solution. Pioneering the way to more expediently-arranged air travel this month with the world's first space available interline e-ticket issued through ID90T are Hawaiian Airlines and Sun Country. "This first space available interline e-ticket between Sun Country and Hawaiian Airlines is a milestone", says Schukraft.
Although ID90T's solution has been available and utilized since January of 2007, last week was the first time a space available interline e-ticket was issued among its many clients that include ExpressJet, Frontier, Air Tahiti, SkyWest, JetBlue, Northwest, Alaska, Horizon, Midwest and Air North, among others.
According to Janette Freeman, Director of Customer Service, Hawaiian Airlines, the 11th largest commercial carrier in the U.S. and ID90T's first client, "being among the first airlines to interline using an advanced, high tech solution like ID90T measures up to the image of Hawaiian Airlines. Our management understands the importance of keeping our employees satisfied, so we are delighted to be among the first to say 'yes' to this innovative and hassle-free solution that will help them take advantage of their travel privileges on another airlines".
Jody Borges is the Manager of Employee Travel at Hawaiian and is responsible for ensuring that the 3,500 employees and their family members understand and utilize Hawaiian Airlines' travel benefits to their best advantage. ID90T helps her with this process by automating cumbersome steps from the past. "The advanced web based Interline Fare Calculator ® (IFC) from ID90T allows our employees to go online and arrange their own travel, as well as to be completely clear about which fares are available to them by every airline. Literally, ID90T took the oppressive part of employee travel out of the mix", she says.
"In the past", she continues, "when employees requested a reduced rate ticket, they would stand in line for an agent, not knowing what a ticket would cost. And not all agents know how to process an interline ticket. Now our employees go online and know exactly how much a trip on any airline costs, and their electronic tickets are processed on the spot".
"Our employees have been enjoying the initial phases of ID90T, but now, with our new interline agreement with Sun Country, they will start to enjoy free and greatly reduced travel on other airlines automatically. We're delighted Sun Country has come aboard".
Sun Country Airlines, an American low-cost airline headquartered in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, flies scheduled and charter flights from the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul to destinations in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, will now link up with Hawaiian as they become "interlining partners".
"While we're still in the earliest phases, we expect that the solution that has been engineered by ID90T will eventually transform the way airlines interline. This will, in effect, upgrade the quality of life for our 1,200 employees and their families, whose service we value, and who deserve the same modern conveniences that our revenue passengers enjoy", says Mark Ondrey, Director of IT, Sun Country Airlines.
According to Ondrey, "Having a tool like ID90T helps Sun Country expand its interline agreements. While many airlines are reducing the number of interline agreements they have for employees, we are able to expand our agreements. It doesn't cost either airline time or money to interline once connected to the ID90T Platform, so it best serves employees to establish as many interline agreements as possible. Airlines are simply not going to expand their interline agreements if it is going to create added costs, which ID90T eliminates".
ID90 TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (ID90T), provides innovative online and Interline e-ticketing and NIET solutions for airline employee travel via its advanced web based Interline Fare Calculator ® (IFC). ID90T facilitates immediate cost savings and unprecedented conveniences for airlines and their employees, in time for the 2008 IATA mandate of 100% e-ticketing. Visit www.ID90T.com.
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