Holland America Updates "Flight Ease" Air Booking Program

August 21, 2015By: Newswire

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Holland America Line has added a new look and enhanced features to its air booking program, Flight Ease.

Holland America said the site is now more intuitive, allowing travel professionals to select departure and return flights separately, add a stopover flight segment, easily compare real-time flexible and restricted fares, and review more detailed schedule displays.

In addition to the new look, the new and improved functionality includes:

• The ability to select departing and return flights independently.
• Improved search filters to easily identify the best flight for clients based on preferred airlines, fare type, number of stops, departure time, price and duration
• Easy comparison of flexible and restricted airfare options for the same flights
• A logic-driven calendar to guide flight planning based on ship departure and arrival dates.
• Newly designed schedule displays detailing important information about type of aircraft, connections and layover times.
• Improved navigation allowing the travel professionals to move easily across the booking flow from each step of the process including search, select departure, select return, summary and pay.

Available through Holland America Line’s Polar Online booking process, Flight Ease offer up-to-the-minute flight schedules that only include those flights that arrive and depart in time for the specific cruise booked; as well as competitive pricing and flight inventory from multiple carriers. All flights booked through Flight Ease include 24-hour assistance for questions and “Next Port Protection,” which means that in case of airline delay or cancellation en route to a cruise, Holland America Line will take care of any flight changes necessary to join the cruise at the next available port of call.

Through Flight Ease, travel agents can select from two pricing options: Flexible Fares provide the greatest leeway for changes with no fees to adjust a flight schedule and airfare payment is due with the final cruise payment. Similar to other low-fare tickets, Restricted Fares are generally a lower price, have cancellation fees and require full payment for the air reservation at the time of booking.

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