FCM Travel Solutions

Mobile applications continue to promise so much in corporate travel but they haven’t quite delivered - yet. There is the distant dream of a single app acting as an access point to airline and hotel and restaurant reservations, itinerary management, ground transportation, loyalty schemes, digital wallets and perhaps even a virtual assistant. These services would all be seamlessly integrated to allow for travel policy compliance, duty of care obligations as well as expense management and the all important spend visibility.  And, they would truly act as a digital companion with in-trip timely information for travellers and push noti...

We’ve partnered with Oman Air to offer you and your travellers a flexible, comfortable and affordable addition to your business travel programme. Oman Air offers competitive fares, a network of over 86 destinations, and for those customers who frequently use the airline, its rewarding loyalty programme Sindbad. If you’ll be flying in First Class or Business Class, you can also look forward to the following services:   First Class Private Suite Book a journey in Oman Air’s new First Class private suite and experience an unmatched level of personalised attention in absolute serenity. The First Class cabins embrace Omani design heritage, with a distinctive interior that is inherently Oman Air. The unique arch shape on the feature wall and on each private suite door has been inspired by the architectural form of the Omani archway — as seen from centuries old forts to the iconic modern Royal Opera Ho...

If you couldn’t attend this year’s BTN Business Travel Tech Talk, here’s a round-up of what you missed at the event.   Now in its seventh year, the annual Business Travel Tech Talk London conference was hosted by BTN Group on Thursday 6 September. Attended by a mix of travel management companies, travel bookers, travel tech companies and business travellers, the one-day conference had a series of expert-led discussions around some of the issues and challenges in the industry.  FCM’s own Chief Experience Officer, John Morhous, was in the first panel of the day, discussing how to app...

FCM Travel Solutions is continuing to expand its footprint in the Middle East and Africa region after signing partnership agreements with GoFly in Algeria and Travel Club Travel & Tourism in Kuwait. The addition of these two countries to FCM’s network, means the travel management company has a presence in 22 markets in the Middle East & Africa region. In addition, Ciarán Kelly has been promoted to Managing Director UAE of FCM’s parent company, Flight Centre Travel Group. He first joined FCM Travel Solutions in 2002 and his 16-year career with the company has included key business development and management roles. Since 2012, Ciarán has held the post of FCM General Manager Middle East & Africa, spearheading the travel management company’s aggressive growth in the region. He will continue to lead FCM’s presence in MEA within his new Flight Centre role. Ciarán takes over the Flight Centre position from A...

More data has been created in the past two years than in the entire history of the world. By 2020, about 1.7 megabytes per second of new information will be created for every human being on the planet using 50 billion connected devices. By then, our accumulated digital universe of data will have grown to 44 trillion gigabytes.