Avinode Drives Innovation With A Suite of White Label Mobile Apps
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Goteborg, Sweden, October 10, 2011 - Avinode, the world’s leading online charter marketplace, is once again driving innovation with their new suite of mobile apps, designed to turn iPhones and iPads into charter sales channels for its members. These apps are designed to increase the visibility of private jets as a travel option and make charter more accessible to end-clients.
“We believe that finding a private jet should be as simple and flexible as traveling in one,” says Per Marthinsson, Managing Director for Avinode Americas. “So we designed a suite of apps that would allow our marketplace members to give their clients easy-access to charter aircraft with real-time price and availability information pulled straight from Avinode.”
The Avinode app team envisioned these white-label apps as a way for members to put their business in the hands of consumers without having to engage in the difficult process of developing their own app in-house. These apps were specifically developed with brokers and operators in mind. They include charter search and request tools specialized for brokers and operators available, both, with or without empty leg search capabilities, as well as, a stand-alone empty leg sales tool.
As with Avinode’s previous innovations, these apps are designed to help the industry reach further and help charter professionals extend their business to new markets and new client segments.
“Our goal is to keep driving innovation to ensure that the industry is able to keep pace with technological change and stay on track with how end-clients are doing business.” Explains Marthinsson. “As consumers around the globe make the move to mobile platforms for their information needs we feel it is important that the charter industry has the ability to do the same, so that businesses in this sector can continue meeting client expectations of how and where business should be conducted.”
Many Avinode member companies have echoed this view, championing the need for technological advances in the smartphone arena.
“Smartphones are the future. They’re where people are going and where business is going,” explains Tina Grano, Charter Sales Director for Florida-based Windsor Jet Management. “It’s all about thinking quickly and trying to get answers quickly. We see this as a good way for tech savvy brokers and end-clients to get what they need quicker and easier than traditional methods.”
Later this month, Windsor Jet Management will become the first U.S. company to launch an Operator App and they already expect that this will change the way their clients interact with them.
“I think that the App will translate well to our professional clients,” says Grano. “They already prefer to interact through the Avinode Marketplace since it means they can send more requests and get a quicker response, so we believe that giving them the ability to reach us on a mobile platform will help to further simplify their sourcing.”
Pedro Corsi, CEO of Servicios Aereos Across SA based in Toluca, Mexico, also feels that his company’s forthcoming Operator App would change the way his clients do business.
“Smart consumers, in general, are looking for easier ways to source charter,” explains Corsi. “With an Operator App we can give our clients real-time access to our prices and availability so we can speed up response time, provide better service and attract last minute business.”
To find out more about Avinode’s Personalized Mobile Apps, or to take a look at their corresponding portfolio of Personalized Web Apps visit Avinode in booth C7818. Servicios Aereos Across is co-exhibiting with Avinode and can also be found in booth C7818 if you would like to find out more about their experience.