After an intense period of integration and careful testing, Senegal Airlines is now providing its content to Travelfusion participants worldwide. Travelfusion, the leader in direct connect solutions and providing cost efficient distribution alternatives is further expanding its worldwide presence and now also spearheading distribution development in Africa. Senegal Airlines has chosen to partner with Travelfusion, the leader in direct connect solutions to pioneer alternative distribution method in the African market.

“We have chosen Travelfusion to implement our distribution strategy in West Africa and to help ‘enrich’ the distribution landscape, dominated by GDSs with modern Direct Connect technology. We believe that a more balanced distribution mix will benefit suppliers, travel agents and in the end travellers in Africa. Opening our content via Travelfusion is only a first step towards modernising the West-African distribution landscape”, explains Andy Günthard, CIO & Head of Distribution at Dakar based Senegal Airlines.

Senegal Airlines is the result of an innovative partnership between the Senegalese State and the national private sector. Technical and strategic partnerships were sealed with Airbus, first European aircraft manufacturer, for his fleet and with Emirates, renowned for its skills and efficiency in the air transport, for its operational implementation.

Senegal Airlines began its activities in January, 2011 with 2 planes Airbus A320, before enriching gradually its fleet which counts 4 devices today: 3 Airbuses A320 and an ATR 72-200.

Based in Dakar, Senegal Airlines proposes henceforth scheduled flights towards Abidjan, Bamako, Banjul, Bissau, Cap-Skirring, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Libreville, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Praia and Ziguinchor. The Dakar’s hub allows the correspondence between each of the served cities, as well as towards Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.senegalairlines.aero.

Travelfusion is the largest Direct Connect booking engine for 160+ airlines and rail operators. Travelfusion powers the largest leisure and corporate online travel agencies and tour operators around the world that use our content in their flights and dynamic packages applications. We also provide comprehensive post booking support and state of the art reporting tools for a complete end to end management of the booking operations.

We are excited to announce the release of our new Hotel API – it is fast, it is intelligent and has full booking support. All packaged in one API and currently available for our customers – business and leisure.

Reducing a long list of results that are impossible to navigate to a more manageable list of the exactly right options for the user. Our solution considers multiple features (location, price, etc) and assesses their value based on specific user request.

It’s also lighter and therefore faster than ever before. We are now able to reduce a long list of results that are impossible to navigate, to a more manageable list of the exactly right options for the user. We factor in multiple features like location, price etc, and we assess their value based on request from the user. We only return the most relevant result for you – a powerful feature for websites but specifically when you develop for mobile devices.

Combine this with full location support – geo-coordinates data for every hotel and the ability to search by that – and you have the perfect solution for tablets and mobile phones.

We also threw in full hotel details and pictures which can be retrieved dynamically – and of course full booking support, including our prepay solution.

In addition to plugging in to low cost fares from all over the world, Travelfusion’s API also enables customers like Click Travel to offer their users the ability to intelligently select the best flight for them – taking location, route, price and airline brand into account.

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In a move that not only expands Travelfusion’s coverage of North American routes but also enhances our coverage of routes to and from Mexico, Travelfusion announces an exciting new partnership with Volaris.

Sure to bring excellent fares and flight options to Travelfusion’s clients from around the world, this addition of Volaris to Travelfusion’s list of suppliers will ensure that the rich content and routes available on Volaris will now be bookable across a much broader spectrum worldwide. Travelfusion is constantly releasing new suppliers to meet the worldwide demand for booking low cost carriers and is currently the largest world distributor of direct connect airlines.

Since 2006, Volaris has been offering low cost flights and routes from and within Mexico to a wide number of customers which is a truly groundbreaking concept in Mexico.

Travelfusion’s CEO Moshe Rafiah states “we are very excited to announce our partnership with Volaris. This is a huge milestone for us in making available both domestic and international flights from Mexico, which will enrich our list of suppliers in North America and should be quite popular with our clients around the world.”

“We are please to announce this new partnership, which represents a significant step in our expansion efforts in the USA. Travelfusion will inform our characteristic low fares to new market segments so that even more people select Volaris as their airline of choice,” said Volaris’ Product and Customer Experience Director, José Calderoni.

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Huge news at Travelfusion these days with the new addition of China Eastern airlines to our ever-expanding list of directly connected bookable airline and rail suppliers. Now, for perhaps the first time ever, it’s not only possible for customers from around the world to access and book China Eastern domestic fares, but it’s easy!

With the release of China Eastern, Travelfusion now brings China Eastern fares that would otherwise be inaccessible to a wide global network of travel agents and OTAs through its renowned Direct Connect API technology.

Moshe Rafiah, Travelfusion’s President and CEO explains “Travelfusion’s partnership with China Eastern airways is an exciting new development and a proof of the growing importance of the direct connect model in travel distribution. China Eastern offers a host of new and exciting routes that will be interesting to our customers around the globe.”

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