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Introducing the business travel industry's first open and agnostic integration platform
Enable business travelers to shop natively within airlines’ web and mobile apps while leveraging unlimited access to contract rates, corporate payment methods, travel policy, duty of care, reporting and more.
Unlimited control
For travel managers
Universal Connect is designed to give corporate administrators an intuitive desktop & mobile experience with travel management features that work seamlessly with their programs’ participating suppliers. With the core functionality of a successful business program at their fingertips, corporate travel administrators can manage all aspects of their travelers’ experience directly with the airlines, eliminating transaction fees.
- Secure user onboarding and account management
- Teams and permissions-based roles architecture
- Stored corporate payment and policy* assignments
- Third-party data sharing and duty-of-care integration*
* Coming soon
Optimized offerings
For airlines
Introducing a corporate-direct travel management platform that extends suppliers’ consumer web and mobile applications; delivering an enhanced customer experience for managed travel programs that lets business travelers book directly with supplier applications without sacrificing service, discounts or policy.
- Reduce distribution costs, optimize revenue streams and offer ancillaries
- Extend your consumer applications to the corporate travel market
- Manage the customer experience (CX) from start to finish for both leisure and corporate travelers
- Authenticate business travelers via your loyalty system
Access everywhere
For travelers
Business travelers gain the freedom and benefit of booking their next managed business trip the same way they would for leisure, integrated seamlessly within brand-specific user experiences they know and love.
- Single point of user authentication at “airline.com” or mobile app
- Self-manage loyalty and rewards activity
- Integrated corporate rates, policies, payment methods
- Instantaneous duty of care and expense integration
Unified experience
Seamless transition and comprehensive, on-brand interaction between both leisure and business travel
All-access
Limitless visibility for administrators to configure booking options, settings, policies, teams, trips, reporting and more
Globalized enhancements
New features and partner integrations automatically available to travelers and administrators across all suppliers
Launch suppliers
We will be adding additional airlines to our roster, with a few major announcements coming soon.
Built by experience
As the latest offering from nuTravel, Universal Connect is the result of almost 20 years of expertise within the travel technology space.
Since 2002, nuTravel - which was acquired by Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) in 2020 - has led the charge for technology innovation. Today, the transformative solutions provider is introducing the industry’s first and only direct-distribution platform for business travel. The web-based platform seamlessly integrates robust corporate travel management functionality and data-sharing capabilities with suppliers’ consumer web and mobile applications.
