Malindo Air is inching into travel agency territory this year, expanding its online services to include a platform that allows travellers to purchase hotels with their flights.
The airline’s CEO, Chandran Rama Murthy, said the holiday portal would go live in September, as would Malindo’s new web check-in facility.
Tina Travel & Agencies managing director, Adam Kamal, said: “Most airlines already go direct to consumers with hotel offerings and instant confirmation. Malindo Air will soon enter this space and it will give travel consultants one more reason to have our own online distribution system or have their website linked to a third-party online distribution system.
“Our company is also in the midst of expanding our offerings to include B2C online services.”
Chandran said the carrier had also recently signed a Letter of Intent with Abacus, and Malindo’s tickets will be sold on the GDS from next month on. He revealed that Malindo was also considering working with other GDSs.
Welcoming the development, Grandlotus Travel Agencies managing director, K Thangavelu, said travel consultants would have another channel to buy tickets from.
-TTG Asia.
www.malindoair.com
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