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Article Excerpt
Worldspan last month introduced a new pricing feature--adopting what effectively has become the industry standard--for posting the complete price of a car rental, including taxes and surcharges, on the initial screen of the global distribution system.
Both the base rate and the total price--guaranteed to be within 1 percent of the actual price--appear on a single screen in Worldspan's Car Source Complete Pricing. To be included, car rental firms have to participate in Car Source, the highest level of connectivity, which provides a seamless link between their internal reservation system and the GDS.
Of Worldspan's 35 car rental suppliers, Ace, Advantage, Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Thrifty and Payless all offer complete pricing, and Hertz just recently upgraded to Car Source. Tom Werthington, Worldspan director of travel supplier solutions, said the GDS soon planned to sign up two more...
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