We all know time is money and a personal travel manager can save you both. The internet is rife with deals, discounts and packages that promises to save you a pound or two. But what the internet can’t promise you, is someone who makes it their business to know your travel preferences and can do the searching and comparing for you, whilst you get on with the more important things in your day.
It’s now become a classic debate: the internet versus the travel agency. Of course, the internet is great for many things, but here’s what you could be missing out on if you don’t have your own travel manager like SkyClub offer:
Time
As we’ve already mentioned, time is the most important factor most people can’t afford to lose just looking for a flight. You could compare several websites and find the one with the lowest price, then you then take a closer look at what the flight entails and nothing else suits your requirements. It has stopovers, it arrives too late in the day to make that important meeting, the cabin has angled beds instead of flat-beds, and so on. So you check the next best one, and go through the same process. By the time you find the right flight, you’ve wasted a good chunk of your day.
Instead, why not spend 5 minutes telling your travel manager what you need and let them spend the time (and the headache) finding it for you? In the initial stages, it should only take about 10-15 minutes to explain what you need, but once you develop that rapport and your travel manager becomes accustomed to your travel movements, the whole process can be whittled down to just a quick email.
Here is a real example of a SkyClub client itinerary request to their travel concierge (names have been omitted for privacy):
Hi SkyClub,
Can you help me please, I’m looking for 2 business flight to china.
Leaving Edinburgh/Glasgow 10th/11th August – going to Qingdao
Leaving Guangzhou 17th/18th August – going to Edinburgh/Glasgow
Thanks
Your travel manager will come back to you with options based on these facts as well as other elements that they’ve come to know about you, like; if you have frequent flyer membership with a particular airline, if you have a preference for a particular airline, and of course the price. It can be just as quick and simple as that.
Tricky itinerary
Does your next business trip have you travelling around the world and back? This is where travel managers are invaluable. Travel managers know schedules and routes off the top of their heads. They probably spend their spare time plane spotting and know that a British Airways flight coming into Heathrow at 19:45 departed from JFK at 07:55 that day.
So if you tell them you need to be in Sao Paulo then in Kathmandu two days later then back home for your niece’s birthday that same day, they will do their utmost to get you there – and in the most comfortable way possible.
Product Knowledge
Travel managers are trained in the product they sell and are usually up-to-date with current trends and information. A good travel manager attends ongoing training, product launches and is subscribed to the best aviation news and magazines to stay in touch with the very latest.
Want to try Thai Airways’ new A350 but don’t know if it will be for you? Your travel manager will be able to tell you that it is very spacious with plenty of space to work, has larger windows with auto-mechanical shades allocated one per seat for optimum passenger comfort, as well as being a smoother flight due to the aircraft’s advanced wing design. They’ll also be able to tell you that Thai Airways is taking reservations on this next-generation aircraft now but will not be operating until 1st of July.
Your own SkyClub Travel Concierge’s phone number or email address is all you need for all your travel demands. Save yourself money, inconvenience and most importantly, time and get yourself a SkyClub travel manager today.
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