| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 26/06/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 34 |
| Copyright: Other |
Agents benefit from Ultimate Charters CD
ULTIMATE Solutions has launched a new charter holiday database for travel agents.The Ultimate Charters product features flight-only and holiday product from nearly 20 operators including Thomson, JMC, First Choice and Unijet.
Agents can download the database to their PC from a free CD, and then they pay a charge every time they dial up to check fares and availability.
Sales director John Williams estimates this will amount to around £5-£10 a week.
“The aim of the product is to save agents valuable time and communication costs by providing instant access from their desktop to all the information required to make a sale,” he said.
The company is also planning to launch an Ultimate Scheduled product next month featuring the latest consolidated fares from wholesalers.
Waltham Abbey-based Ultimate Solutions used to be known as Consolidata, which has been operating fares databases since 1988.
However, its old product Consolidata Classic was not millennium-compliant and plans to replace it with an Internet-based product called Consolidata Plus foundered due to technical problems.