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.

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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This new partnership continues Travelfusion’s commitment to be the first travel technology company to partner with all LCCs around the world.  Founded in 2004, BlueAir is a revolutionary company serving more than thirty international cities in Europe, Asia and even the Caribbean and offering customers extremely low web fares.

Moshe Rafiah, Travelfusion’s founder and CEO states, “our partnership with BlueAir is another great win for our leading leisure and corporate agencies around the world providing them with immediate access to some of the best flights from/to Romania and Eastern Europe. This is further validation to the great success of the Direct Connect model that offers airlines the most cost effective distribution and widest reach”.

Blue Air CEO Sherif Ussama comments: ”Blue Air is the market leader in Romania and more than 4.5 million passengers have chosen the Blue Air flights over the last fiveyears. In 2010, the company expects around 2.2 million customers and revenues of over 200€ million.  The new partnership with Travelfusion will make it easier for us to reach these figures.”

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In a groundbreaking move, Travelfusion announces its recent partnership with VIA Rail Canada (www.viarail.ca).  This agreement makes Travelfusion the first travel distributor in the world to offer both airline and rail data in a single application programming interface (API) call.

Clearly the start of a trend in growing rail coverage in all parts of the world, Travelfusion is especially excited to partner with VIA Rail. An environmentally responsible way to travel, rail has become a preferred transportation option for many travellers worldwide.

Moshe Rafiah, Travelfusion’s founder and CEO states, “We are delighted to work with VIA Rail for the Direct Connect distribution of their Canadian rail content to our worldwide agency customer base. Our model offers VIA Rail a cost-effective way to sell their content and provides our customers with the first solution of its kind that combines in a single XML API call, fares from airlines and rail with full comparison on time, cost and locations for travel.”

VIA Rail’s Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Steve Del Bosco comments, “We are confident that this partnership with Travelfusion to harness innovation in the use of distribution technology will facilitate multi-modal air-rail journeys by International visitors to Canada.”