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Why SMEs struggle with valuable flight bookings
Booking flights online is easy-peasy. But it can quickly drain your team’s time or budget. Common challenges:
- Endless searching across airline sites
- Business travellers booking outside policy
- No visibility into prices, savings, or spend
- Missed savings due to last-minute fares
- No support when things go wrong mid-trip
For small and medium-sized UK businesses (SMEs), managing all the details of a business trip and protecting the company budget are major concerns. Especially if you're trying to control costs and ensure every booking aligns with company policies!
As companies like yours grow, there comes a time when the organisation needs a smarter, faster, more managed way to book flights, and not another tab open in their browser.
What our corporate flight booking service includes
Corporate Traveller offers personalised corporate travel services unique to your business, including a managed flight booking solution. It's all backed by decades of experience and built for speed, savings, and traveller confidence.
The corporate flight booking process includes planning, obtaining approval, booking, managing expenses, and post-trip analysis.
It's the bread and butter of our corporate travel management services for UK clients, making the booking process easier, driving cost savings, and providing a seamless travel experience through value-added features and expert support.
How corporate flight booking works
Whether you speak to one of our travel managers on the phone or email, or you use Melon, the process is simple.
Thanks to our decades of experience, we know the smoothest travel booking processes that remove friction at every step.
New users can get started quickly as well and book their first trip effortlessly through this streamlined workflow.
1. Tell us your travel requirements
Share travel dates, preferences, budget, and policy rules.
Once you've told us your preferences, they are stored across our systems, so you won't have to repeat yourself for the next trip.
2. Receive curated, policy-compliant flight options
We compare airlines, fares, routes, and different airports to present only business-ready options that make sense for your company budget. Our experts will have additional advice to make sure your trip goes as smoothly as possible.
3. Book in minutes
Confirm through your travel manager or the Melon platform. No guesswork. No wasted time.
If you want to streamline how travel is paid for, we have various payment options to help.
4. Get instant confirmations and itinerary syncing
Everything is sent to the traveller and synced across devices.
5. Enjoy 24/7 Support for Changes, Disruptions & Rebooking
We handle the problems, so your team keeps moving.
Our dedicated travel experts handle all issues, even at 2am when someone is on the other side of the world. Round-the-clock support and professional assistance are just a phone call away, whenever you or your business travellers need them. With years of experience in business travel, our support team of travel experts ensures your travellers receive fast, effective rebooking when there's a delay or cancellation.
Book flights effortlessly with our travel platform
Melon is our technology that simplifies every part of flight booking. Our platform streamlines every step, saving time for your entire team.
- Smart search, with negotiated fares built in
- Automated travel policy enforcement
- Self-serve or assisted booking options
- Approval workflows for managers and Finance
- Real-time itinerary updates and disruption alerts
- Mobile app for booking, check-ins, and support
- Integrations with HR and expense management tools
- Access to historical data on bookings and prices for informed decision-making and trend analysis
The platform reduces admin time and increases compliance without slowing travellers down.
Achieve real savings on your corporate flights
You're probably thinking that this process only works if it saves you money and time. So, we build savings into every step. With Corporate Traveller, your company's travel programme will drive cost savings and keep you on budget, while saving everyone time too.
- Exclusive Corporate Fares: Rates you can't get on public airline sites, with corporate discounts and special opportunities to save big on every booking.
- Missed Savings Reporting: See exactly where travel spend could have been optimised through
- Unused Ticket Automation: If you have travellers in the United States or Canada, they get credits with an airline when a flight is delayed or cancelled. We'll help you use and recover credits before they expire.
- Travel Spend Insights: See how your current cost savings stack up against the past. Understand how to drive real value with small changes to your travel policy and programme, matched to travel needs.
Our service is designed to help you save money and manage your company's travel programme efficiently, ensuring every trip is cost-effective and streamlined.
Give your travellers a smoother flight booking experience
Your travellers deserve less friction and more reliable bookings.
- Real people available 24/7
- Fast rebooking during cancellations and delays
- Seat selections and preferences applied automatically
- Safety alerts and global risk monitoring
- Centralised itineraries across all devices
- Dedicated support for customers and personalised service for each person travelling
- Effective loyalty programme management can result in airport lounge access, seat upgrades and more personalised preferences.
Happier travellers = fewer complaints, better productivity, smoother operations.
Stay in control of your travel policy and approvals
Bring structure and compliance to business travel without slowing people down. Corporate Traveller can help you put together a travel policy customised to your business that covers:
- Automated policy enforcement
- Custom approval workflows
- Budget visibility for finance teams
- Department-level spend tracking
- Audit trails & data compliance baked in
Control the costs. Standardise the process. Keep everyone aligned.
Make more sustainable travel choices
Support your company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments with smarter decision-making and reporting on flights. With Corporate Traveller you can:
- View CO₂ impact for flight options
- See greener route recommendations
- Access emissions reporting for your sustainability team
- Get guidance on selecting lower-impact travel choices
Sustainability is no longer optional, and flight booking must support it.
Corporate flight booking FAQs
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How does the flight booking work for small businesses?
As your corporate travel management company, we manage the entire process. From finding the best fares to booking and itinerary delivery, it's based on your policy and preferences.Because it's booked through us, you can also track expenses more easily. With our centralised payment options, you can reduce travel expenses errors through a one-stop shop for travel and payment.
Bookings are made using approved methods confirmed by you and customised to your company needs, including online booking tools or dedicated travel managers.
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Do you offer discounted or negotiated airfares?
Yes. We provide access to corporate fares, SME airline programmes, and negotiated partner deals that aren’t available publicly.Discounts are also found in changing habits. For example, booking flights early generally results in better rates. Even by outsourcing corporate flight bookings to a travel management company and tool like ours, you can save money in the long term.
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Can travellers book flights after hours?
Yes. One of the biggest benefits of using Corporate Traveller is that our consultants and platform are available 24/7 for booking changes and emergency assistance. -
How do you handle flight changes or cancellations?
We manage rebooking, fare changes, and disruption support on your behalf, often before travellers even contact us.
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What reporting do companies receive?
You get detailed spend dashboards, missed savings insights, traveller activity logs, and unused ticket tracking. Over time, you can use this data to encourage employees to fly with a particular airline or route and better plan future corporate travel. -
Do we have to use your booking platform?
No. You can book via your consultant, the platform, or a combination of both. The advantage of using Corporate Traveller is that your journey information and personal preferences are available across our people and technology.