Airsavvi and Kiwi.com Entered into Partnership to Enhance Air Travel Experiences
China Aviation Daily | Dec. 19, 2019
Airsavvi, a global leader of travel data intelligence, has announced its partnership with Kiwi.com, a leading online travel-tech company, to provide real-time notifications of flight status changes for travelers booked with Kiwi.com.
Kiwi.com, as an established OTA brand, has embraced the advanced flight status data from Airsavvi, which maintains a most comprehensive and up-to-date flight database covering schedules, live flight status, and contextual data such as airport and aircraft information related to over 94% of global commercial flights. By integrating Airsavvi's flight status information, Kiwi.com is able to automatically push notifications of any flight status changes (e.g. check-in counters, gates, estimated takeoff/landing time) for travelers who has booked a flight on their platforms.
"Providing detailed information about flights to customers is becoming a high priority for Kiwi.com and cooperation with Airsavvi only benefits us and helps us achieve the best results," says Vladimír Alfery, Head of Data Acquisition at Kiwi.com.
With its unrivalled product range and seamless integration, Airsavvi aviation data solutions have become the go-to choice for a wide global customer network which includes online travel agents (OTAs), airlines, logistics, ride services, flight right services, etc. Talking about its latest partnership, Mr. Zheng Hongfeng, CEO of VariFlight (the parent company of Airsavvi) said, "we are delighted to support the roll out of the new feature on Kiwi.com booking platforms and enhance the flight travel experience for their users. Apart from flight status data, we are also exploring more cooperation opportunities to provide more air journey services for passengers worldwide. They can therefore avail themselves of all relevant information that is needed for their flights, for example, status data of previous flights, historical on-time performance rates, and the Flight Happiness Index which contains rich content of amenity facilities including legroom, catering, power outlet, WiFi, etc."
About Airsavvi
Airsavvi is a global leading travel data intelligence company focused on helping businesses build data application capabilities for achieving growth.
Airsavvi understands travel data. We are shaping the position of data in the services and decision-making of businesses from civil aviation and the wider travel sector.
Airsavvi is a VariFlight brand.
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About Kiwi.com
Founded by Oliver Dlouhy and Jozef Képesi in 2012, Kiwi.com is an online search engine allowing users to combine transportation from non-cooperating carriers. It is powered by its proprietary algorithm (Virtual Interlining) that allows users to combine flights and ground transportation from over 750 carriers, including many that do not normally cooperate, accompanied by industry-leading Kiwi.com Guarantee. Today, the company sees more than 100 million searches every day and employs over 2,800 people worldwide. Kiwi.com ranked seventh in the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA list, becoming the highest-ever rated Czech company. Following the previous success, Kiwi.com ranked fifth in the very same program in 2018. In 2019, the company announced a change in its vision and the aim of becoming the first Virtual Global Supercarrier in the next three years.
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