Business Travelers To Get Negotiated Airfares at United.com
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The Concur-United partnership should enable heretofore rogue business travelers to book their flights on United.com, as a leisure traveler would, and still make their employers happy by getting their corporate discounts.
Everyone from executives at American Express Global Business Travel to online travel agencies have spoken about the consumerization of business travel and how road warriors demand access to the same kinds of booking features from their corporate booking tools that they can readily find on leisure travel sites.
United Airlines and Concur, the travel and expense tech company, are taking a significant step in that direction with their announcement July 10 of a partnership that enables employees of corporations that are clients of both United and Concur to book flights on United.com and still get the corporate discounts that their companies have negotiated with the airline.
The United deal, which would be implemented for beta testing in the fourth quarter of 2014, is the first such airline agreement for Concur's TripLink solution, which previously was ca
