| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 14/08/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 72 |
| Copyright: Other |
Corporate travellers
BA teams up with agents to develop management portal
BRITISH Airways is working with business travel agents to launch a travel management portal for small and medium-sized corporate clients.The portal, due to go live in October, will enable corporate clients to manage their own travel on-line.
Agents pay a flat fee of £3,500 to allow them to co-brand the portal with their clients or link it to their own home Web site.
BA is holding a series of e-commerce seminars in September. Agents wishing to attend should contact Spencer Brace on 020-8738 7173.
News of the portal comes as BA announced a loss of £50 million in pre-tax profits for the three months to June 30.
Meanwhile, BA has extended the period for merger talks with Dutch carrier KLM. A final decision will be made next month.