Flee – a travel recommendation application designed to deliver five-star shopping experiences and restore ‘art and exploration’ to travel – is using Vayant’s tailor-made Pricing Cache to power its flexible airfare search.
SOFIA and LONDON – Vayant Travel Technologies, a world leader in B2B airfare search innovation, announced that Canada-based travel start-up Flee is the latest customer to implement its Pricing Cache second-generation caching solution.
Flee – a travel recommendation application designed to deliver five-star shopping experiences and restore ‘art and exploration’ to travel – is using Vayant’s tailor-made Pricing Cache to power its flexible airfare search, which will provide Flee customers destination recommendations based on their available budget and preferred travel dates.
Pricing Cache’s accuracy (typically, over 80 per cent) and frequency of updates is key to delivering the quality of streamlined experience promised by the Flee brand. The Flee cache currently includes around 136,000 bookable air combinations and is updated four times a day. Flights are then booked using a US OTA’s Private Label Programme. Hotels’ content and booking is provided by the Mr & Mrs Smith boutique hotels company.
“We are delighted to welcome Flee as a customer in North America. We share the same focus on delivering truly inspirational travel shopping experiences and, with Pricing Cache, we are helping Flee to give its customers those unique experiences,” said Eric Dumas, CEO Vayant Travel Technologies. He added: “It is also great to see Pricing Cache work just as well for a travel startup as it does for huge businesses, like Hotelplan, another recent Vayant customer.”
“Vayant’s flexible Pricing Cache product has definitely reduced the barriers to entry for travel start-ups. Their product is fully customizable and scalable so that we can both grow with one another’s success,” commented Zeina Belouizdad, co-founder at Flee.
Vayant Pricing Cache was first launched in September 2012, and an enhanced version (Pricing Cache V2.0) was released in February 2013, used by OTAs and airlines worldwide. New features of Pricing Cache V2.0 include support for multiple passenger types and different fare classes in a single cache for each O&D combination. Travel retailers can also specify maximum connection times, airports, airlines, routes, and define the number and type of search results in their respective cache. Cache data updates are available up to twenty-four times per day.
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