At Montrose Travel, we are dedicated to meeting your needs and we strive to provide you with the highest quality of service. In an effort to ensure that we meet this goal, we recently instituted call recording. Call recording assists with ongoing training for our associates and ensures that you receive unsurpassed customer service.

 

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Establishing a written travel policy is of critical importance to an organization if they are serious about controlling travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses.

 

Employees cannot be expected to follow guidelines when there are no guidelines to follow. Consequently, many employees do not take advantage of cost saving opportunities that can dramatically reduce the travel costs incurred by an organization. A strong policy also provides negotiating leverage for a company to indicate to a potential supplier its ability to move volume and market share.

 

The solution is proper planning and management of the travel budget in combination with a solid travel policy. There is no standard policy that will satisfy every corporation. We have created a simple to use Written Travel Policy development tool designed to streamline the process, as well as an easy to use template with complete sample policies to speed the creation of your own policy.

 

Once your policy is complete, you can count on Montrose Travel to help in its execution, adherence, and continued modification while managing both your offline and online travel bookings.

 

Written Travel Policy Sample

Montrose Travel's redesigned CorpConnect Travel Portal gives you the ability to organize everything you need to make your Corporate Travel Management Program a success.

 

The CorpConnect Travel Portal is more customizable than ever before! We offer branded sites and non-technical, user-friendly tools that allow you to build the portal to fit your company's needs.

 

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Travel GPA allows you to analyze and interpret your overall performance in a side-by-side comparison. Utilizing live data feeds from some of the largest and most respected Travel Management Companies in the industry, Travel GPA provides real time account management - allowing you to make the most of your data. You can generate easy-to-read report cards that track:

• Travel performance
• Online adoption rate
• Advance purchase
• Travel & Expense policy compliance

The above factors are just a few of the ways you can benchmark the effectiveness of your travel program and travel spend against the rest of the world.

 

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Cliqbook is for highly sophisticated, managed travel programs:

• Manage company information, configuration, user information, travel policy
• Invaluable real time reporting
• Booking inventory from major Global Distribution Systems, exclusive direct connects, and internet-only sources

MontroseCorp is for more simple, unmanaged travel programs:

• Offers a less complex way to book online
• A corporate travel policy is not required
• Offers lower transaction fees than working directly with an agent

 

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Along with our ever-changing economy, airlines have had to make frequent changes to fees to ease the impact on the way they do business. Below are recent press releases and fee charts associated to the airlines and the changes they have mandated, as well as the dates they are in effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silverjet ceases operations as of May 30th, 2008
The airline, which has only been in operation since last year, is the latest to fall victim to soaring jet fuel prices.

 

American Airline and United Airline ticketing time changes

• All First Class, Business Class and Full Fare Coach tickets must be issued 3 days prior to travel or 1 day after the reservation is made, whichever is later.
• All other refundable fare type tickets must be issued within 24 hours of making the reservation

 

Hawaiian Airlines administers new fee
As of June 10th, 2008, Hawaiian Airlines updated current refund rules for all domestic and international travel. For fully refundable fares, Hawaiian Air will process with an administrative service fee of $100 for travel between points in the Continental USA between the Continental USA and Hawaii and between the Continental USA/Hawaii and South Pacific/International points, administrative fee of $25 for travel wholly within the State of Hawaii if reservations are cancelled prior to scheduled departure. Failure to cancel confirmed reservations prior to travel (no shows) will result in ZERO value of your ticket.

 

Stranded at the airport? Don't forget Rule 240
Rule 240, a holdover from the days prior to airline deregulation, guarantees certain passenger rights in the event of flight delays or cancellations. But does it apply to your situation?

 

Announcing Easy Check-in Online Enhancements from United Airlines
Effective immediately new enhancements to United's Easy Check-in now allow customers to check in online for all United and United Express flights worldwide.

 

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