Munich/Würselen/Berlin – Yet another brand of the FTI GROUP is changing to the OTDS standard: the last minute tour operator 5vorFlug thus follows the brands FTI and BigXtra. End of July the data delivery to Traveltainment, covering the entire portfolio of 5vorFlug including the hotel only, packaged travel and the Datamix offers of X5VF, have been migrated to OTDS.
As a result the data quality has improved significantly with its performance indicators availability and price accuracy. While the availability improved by ten percentage points and now almost hits 90%, the price accuracy for the dynamic tour operator X5VF improved by even more than 10 points and rose to 96%. Since the 5vorFlug-data team may now – thanks to OTDS – deliver all pricing rules correctly to the processing systems, a higher price stability is provided throughout the search process.
Another advantage yet are the faster production times, that could be reduced at 5vorFlug by several hours. As with OTDS also the import- and processing periods at Traveltainment are reduced, the 5vorFlug-OTDS-data now is available significantly earlier in Traveltainment’s search and booking systems than with the legacy INFX format.
The 5vorFlug-project was completed within four months. Tanja Vodermayer, Head of Data Management at FTI GROUP, resumes: „The know-how from previous integrations and the reports provided by Traveltainment helped us to self-reliant identify format errors and to eliminate those. That made the process very efficient.“
In order to benefit from the advantages of the format migration in all distribution channels, FTI drives the change to OTDS among other distribution systems as well. By the end of the year the INFX-and Datamix production shall be shut down completely in order to produce OTDS only for the brand 5vorFlug.