Aeronology
Headquarters:
Melbourne, Australia
CEO: Russell
Carstensen
Website:
Aeronology
Founding
date: 2019
Investment:
$3.5 million
Aeronology has created a simple, full-service “point of sale” travel booking platform. The travel
tech company’s booking model is created for travel advisors, universities, government
and corporate organizations.
Aeronology enables Sabre, Travelport, Amadeus, TravelSky, IATA NDC - LCC
Certified and full travel web services connections to every available airline
and travel product in the world.
All available auxiliaries and special service requests (SSR) are bookable online - book, change,
reshop, reissue, cancel and refund all products on one screen and every user is
trained within hours.
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Founders Russell Carstensen and Ahmed Fakhra
Strategic goals for 2023
Aeronology’s key strategic business
model is to provide for our travel arrangers (internal or external) a universal,
easy-to-use self-service travel booking tool. This is important as the “brain
drain” of experienced travel experts hits the travel industry as the market continues
to rebound.
We’re building a booking experience for
flights, hotels, rail and all required travel needs on one platform and one screen,
whether it’s a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone.
Lessons learned since founding
You really need to be able to pivot when faced with significant
challenges, and that's what we did with Aeronology during COVID and the
subsequent lockdowns and disruptions globally.
Aeronology started developing
technology for a particular part of the travel distribution market but expanded
it to encompass the entire global model.
So, one key learning since launching
is to always be flexible and agile enough to position yourself as the travel
market changes and multiple distribution channels are introduced. Choosing the most flexible cloud-based
platforms and programming language to manage the massive growth of APIs and web
services is critical to survival and expansion.
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