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By: FEDweek StaffGSA has issued a new city pairs program contract for travel effective October 1, a program in which airfare rates for official travel by federal employees to some 12,000 markets are pre-negotiated at fixed rates and there are no cancellation or change fees.
The same eight major U.S. carriers were awarded contracts based on criteria including availability of non-stop service, total number of flights, flight availability, average elapsed flight time, and price of service. The carriers are Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.
GSA said the contracts offer about a 53 percent discount on comparable commercial fares, for an estimated saving of nearly $2.4 billion versus commercial rates. That represents a projected return of official travel to pre-pandemic rates.
Other benefits include that bookings are fully refundable, have last seat availability, have no minimum or maximum length of stay requirements, and have no blackout dates, it said.
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