DIRECTCONNECT API’s core mission is to take excellent care of your crew while driving savings and efficiencies for your airline. Our newest proprietary advancement in reservation technology gives our operations agents full visibility into all available rooms in a defined geographic location. No more making multiple requests and waiting for a response from the hotel. [...]
It is not just about calling hotels and negotiating terms once a year. You need a strategy, driven by data and analytics that tells you where and when to focus your efforts in order to maximize savings and optimize the layover experience for your crew. But don’t stop there - you should be able to [...]
Providing the best and most efficient layover experience for your crew and disrupted passengers isn’t just about finding them the best accommodations for the best value. It includes choosing partners that keep all of their personal data safe and secure in order to prevent exposure to monetary loss and brand damage associated with data security [...]
With the Holiday Season now upon us, normal traveling anxiety has taken a new form this year. Those traveling, as well as their families and friends, have understandable concerns about the possible dangers of traveling during a pandemic. From the very start of the World Health Organization's declaration of the Coronavirus pandemic, airlines and hotels [...]
API’s eInvoicing platform is a flexible billing and reconciliation platform, eliminating unnecessary expenses due to error or lack of efficiency. eInvoicing ensures that airlines are paying the exact amounts they owe to supplier, and even has multiple audits to ensure compliance. Key features of eInvoicing include: Full transparency into all expense down to the trip [...]
API has been the worldwide leader in crew accommodations solutions for over 35 years. We make sure over 20,000 crew members from more than 85 airlines rest comfortably every night with the help of our proprietary technology, unique software solutions, and our highly experienced team. We work hard to make sure your crew is happy, [...]
ACES and API Operation Centers Adapt to Industry Challenges When travel restrictions and quarantine requirements were issued by governments around the world, the aviation and hospitality world was sent into turmoil. Flight schedules were seriously disrupted, hotels closures were rampant, and airline crew members were displaced from their typical layover hotels. Our airline partners had [...]
One of the areas that API have been very active in over the past couple of months, as the industry continues to remain unstable under the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic, has been in identifying opportunities for airlines to realize savings and efficiencies in the costs of crew accommodation across their global networks. With [...]
COVID-19 has left an indelible mark on the aviation industry. For essentially all of the aviation world, its entrance will be remembered as a single point in time, early 2020, and mentioned as a single-word event, “COVID.” The memories it evokes will be those of contraction, reduction, and uncertainty. It was an unplanned and unwelcomed [...]
