Lufthansa City Centers Use Partners' LOW.FARE Tool

 

Lufthansa City Centers (LCCs) have chosen Partners-System’s LOW.FARE for booking low-cost carrier flights. Thus, the Bremen-based IT company, after CWT and Worldspan, has gained a third major client for LOW.FARE. The Lufthansa City Center travel agency organisation wishes to complementarily implement LOW.FARE in addition to its already existing consulting tool: counter.net.

 

Lufthansa City Centers will immediately implement Partners Software’s LOW.FARE internationally. This decision on behalf of the Franchising Centre is binding for all German LCC partner agencies. In addition to German LCC travel agencies, Partners’ booking platform for low-cost carriers can also be implemented by all international LCC agencies worldwide in 60 further countries.

 

LOW.FARE is being implemented in all LCC organisation’s branches, both in Germany and internationally, in corporate as well as in leisure travel sales. "The wide offering of current low-cost fares is highly attractive for all our business branches,“ explains LCC’s CEO, Klaus Henschel. Lufthansa City Centers thereby complete the software package provided to their agencies and thus increase their consulting quality, above all within the corporate travel sector. “Since the beginning of the year, we have been offering our less flight-burdensome LCCs the possibility of a full-graphic airfare comparison of all airlines and fares, moreover provide colleagues the capability  without leaving the cryptic mode, of creating a fully extensive offering including Web fares and low-cost carriers. This is, especially within the framework of processing costs, notable value added for LCCs", states Michael Marx, Business Plus’s Division Manager.

 

With 560 travel agencies in 60 countries and a turnover of more than 3.6 billion euros, LCCs belong to the largest travel agency organisation worldwide. “We are happy that via LOW.FARE we can offer a product, which meets the high international consulting standards of Lufthansa City Centers,” reaffirms Ingmar Suhr, Partners’ Business Development Manager.

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