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Tourism Expert Chides Govt's Attitude |
| A tourism and hospitality expert and managing director/chief executive of an Abuja-based fast food company, Twin Palm Rendezvous, Mr. Francis Ikechukwu Onyearugbulem, has expressed serio ... |
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Nigerian airline orders 24 new airplanes |
| Nigeria's flag carrier Virgin Nigeria has ordered 24 new aircraft from Embraer of Brazil at a total cost of 101.4 billion naira, local n e wspapers reported Monday (US$1=125 nair ... |
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Virgin Nigeria Introduces New Online Reservation System |
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| Virgin Nigeria, in line with its dedicated commitment to partner with all travel agents, has introduced a new on-line reservation and payment portal known as the “On-line Agency Booking System” (OABS)..
The newly introduced on-line reservation and payment portal enables all Travel agents to book and make payments for all Virgin Nigeria tickets on-line with interswitch ATM debit cards and earn immediate commissions on every transaction.
Making the announcement in Lagos over the weekend, Virgin Nigeria’s Director of Sales & Outstations, Mrs. Adeola Bali said that the introduction of the On-line Agency Booking System (OABS) will help to reduce the risk of erroneous entries that occur in manual transactions as the agents’ sales network will be integrated into Virgin Nigeria’s systems. Furthermore, she said reconciliations would be more accurate as it would be conducted electronically with an automatic update of sales.
Speaking further on the introduction, Mrs. Adeola Bali said: “With the new reservation and booking system, travel agents will have a seamless service delivery as they will have immediate response to reservations, confirmations as well as make payments anywhere and at anytime through online payment portals which will reduce risks associated with cash transfers”.
She further noted that Virgin Nigeria understands the importance of cost control to the travel agent and the on-line agency booking system serves as an extremely cost effective way of booking and securing seats on the airline.
Since the launch of its commercial operations Virgin Nigeria has been at the forefront of introducing innovative and customer friendly products to make air travel in Nigeria a pleasurable experience. Virgin Nigeria pioneered on-line reservations and payments system as well as mobile phone enabled booking processes.
Other notable efforts by Virgin Nigeria include the recent signing of Airlogica, one of the world’s leading companies in distribution software and specialists in cost control and revenue management options to provide software that allows Virgin Nigeria to monitor all bookings made by her ticketing and travel agents. |
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