It is a privilege to work with AmTrav as an innovation partner. We are excited about the opportunities ahead!
Speaking of things that have stayed stuck in the 90s... Seat maps! Until now. One of my favorite AmTrav enhancements in a long time is our new seat map display. Maybe I've become too much of a prima donna in my old age but, when I fly, I care A LOT about what seat I sit in. All seats are not created equal and the standard seat maps that just show every seat as a dot or a square don't really help me make decisions. That's why AmTrav has partnered with Quicket GmbH / SeatMaps to bring more visual seat maps to our customers. Now we point out, right in the booking path, where a seat is, where the galleys and lavs are, how much pitch/legroom/recline, what direction it's angled if its a life flat seat, etc. I am super proud of our dev team on this one. We have always been willing to do whatever it takes to bring content into our platform -- all kinds of content -- that improves the traveler experience. But here it was particularly tricky to overlay the great visual content we get from Quicket with the vital information about seat prices and company policy that we've always included. Lots of credit to Djois Franklin and his team, too, for putting up with our endless stream of requests to make this work for us and our clients. You know who will especially love these new seat maps? Travelers who fly in premium cabins. If you're paying thousands of dollars to sit up front, you want to know, for example, which rows are angled in for more privacy and which rows are angled out and have less. That's now really easy to see! We spend a lot of time and effort making sure our booking tool can deliver the same options and inventory that travelers find on airline direct sites. But here's a great example of how we can do those airline sites one better!