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Achieve Significant Savings with API’s Technology and Solutions

By |2021-02-11T18:33:33+00:00February 11th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Did you know that API achieved over $50 Million in combined savings? While the COVID pandemic has caused incredible chaos within the airline industry, it has also created a unique opportunity to negotiate short-term and long-term savings related to crew layover accommodations. In the past year, API has: Evaluated over 5,000 destinations and know exactly [...]

Steadfast Reliability During Turbulent Times

By |2021-01-25T16:17:41+00:00January 25th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

35 Years of Airline Crew Accommodations Management API pioneered Crew Accommodations Management and today we remain the most TRUSTED provider in the industry. We have grown to manage crew logistics for more than 85 clients since our start in 1984 by living the following values: We always do the right thing  We make good promises [...]

Travel During the Upcoming Holiday Season

By |2020-12-11T15:10:54+00:00December 11th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

Adapting to a New Normal: Virtual Site Inspections

By |2020-08-12T19:31:35+00:00August 12th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Travel Industry Dictionary defines a hotel site inspection as “a visit to a hotel property or other establishment for the purpose of evaluation.” The hotel site inspection is an imperative step in our Sourcing & Contracting process as this evaluation enables our team to confirm that the hotel is compliant with specific requirements that API airline partners have [...]

API is Ahead of the Curve during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By |2020-07-22T16:02:00+00:00July 22nd, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , |

Our Executive Director of Industry Relations and Business Development, Erika Cianciulli, takes a moment from home to explain what API has been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The API team stands ready to work with you to increase efficiency and develop the most cost-effective relationships possible. API is the World Leader in Crew [...]

Technology Ready for Disruption – Even COVID-19

By |2020-07-17T19:29:25+00:00July 17th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

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 [...]

API’s Saving Initiative for Existing and New Airline Partners

By |2020-06-29T21:23:33+00:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

From Surviving to Thriving: Time to Reimagine Legacy Thinking

By |2020-06-22T20:40:02+00:00June 22nd, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

Hotels Focus on Cleanliness

By |2020-06-16T15:17:42+00:00June 15th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

An article published by the Associated Press was featured in the June 8, 2020 edition of The New York Times mentioning three of API’s main hotel partners, Marriott, Hilton and IHG. Each of these hotel chains are consulting with industry experts to develop new standards for cleaning and sanitization. Marriott and IHG are both working [...]

Letter to API from AeroMexico

By |2020-06-15T22:10:09+00:00June 10th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Ramzi Kamel, our Chief Commercial Officer here at API, recently received the following letter from AeroMexico: June 5, 2020 Dear Ramzi, I wanted to take this opportunity on behalf of the AeroMexico Team to express my sincere gratitude for your dedicated support during the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. After an exhaustive evaluation of the [...]