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Accelya BIDT Audit

Reduce booking abuses by 50% and optimize costs with a powerful audit across the booking lifecycle.

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Why Accelya BIDT Audit

Incorrect GDS billings and booking abuses lead to revenue loss for airlines and inflate the GDS bill by up to 2%. This can be controlled with a robust and consistent audit.

Accelya BIDT Audit helps airlines reduce booking abuses by 50% and optimize costs. By providing full visibility into your GDS invoices, it identifies billing discrepancies, recovers revenue through Agency Debit Memos (ADMs), and ensures agents follow booking policies. With real-time audits and actionable insights, Accelya empowers airlines to minimize financial leakage, improve agent behavior, and unlock greater profitability per passenger.

Reduce GDS booking abuse by 50%

Go to market in 3 months

Potential to boost per Passenger Profitability to $0.60

$150 mn recovery a year for 70+ airlines across our audit portfolio

Transform Your Airline with the Powerful Features
and Exceptional Benefits of Accelya BIDT Audit

Proven Results in Auditing Airline Passenger Journey

Our solution delivers tangible results, such as a 50% reduction in booking abuses and decrease in GDS costs. Our BIDT and Sales Audit together identify $150 mn recoverable revenue a year and deliver per passenger profitability of $0.60.

Implement a Holistic Strategy to Unlock Higher Profits

We cover all aspects of your indirect sales channels, from detailed cost analysis to agent compliance, ensuring a more thorough resolution of revenue leakage and inaccurate costs. Combined with our Sales Audit, this strategy effectively reduces revenue leakage across the passenger lifecycle and increases profitability. 

Optimize Agent Performance and Policy Compliance

Accelya BIDT Audit goes beyond standard monitoring through advanced tools to track agent compliance. Our proactive approach helps prevent booking abuses and ensures adherence to airline policies, providing a more effective deterrent against fraudulent practices.

Ensure Leakage Recovery

Failure to penalize travel agents for violating booking policies encourages further abuse. To tackle that, Accelya generates ADMs to agents, as per airline policies, to penalize abuses and malpractices. 

Our customers have seen results in as little as 6 months with Accelya’s BIDT service.

Uncover GDS billing discrepancies, prevent inventory misuse, and reduce unproductive bookings to drive down costs and improve revenue management.

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FAQs for Accelya BIDT Audit

Accelya BIDT Audit helps airlines monitor and audit their GDS booking costs. It identifies discrepancies in GDS billing, inventory abuse by travel agents, and unproductive bookings, ultimately reducing unnecessary costs and improving revenue management.

Accelya BIDT Audit helps airlines control GDS expenses by identifying discrepancies in GDS billing and detecting abusive booking practices, such as churning and duplicate bookings. By penalizing agents through ADMs and enforcing policies, airlines can reduce booking abuses by up to 50% and save GDS costs.

Accelya BIDT Audit identifies various unproductive booking practices, such as:

  • Churning: Repeated cancellations and re-bookings.
  • Duplicate bookings: Booking multiple seats for the same passenger on conflicting flights.
  • Fictitious bookings: Bookings made with no intent to travel, often under fake names.
  • Inactive segments: Bookings that block inventory but are no longer valid.
  • High Cancellations: Cancellations beyond a certain cancellation percentage

The solution educates agents by providing insight into their booking practices. It also issues ADMs when booking policies are violated, deterring further abuse. This process encourages agents to follow airline policies, leading to cleaner, more efficient bookings.

Yes, by minimizing unproductive bookings and inventory abuse, Accelya BIDT Audit helps airlines maintain more accurate and available inventory. This, in turn, supports better revenue management by enabling more effective price optimization and seat allocation.

  • Reduce GDS Costs: Accelya BIDT Audit identifies discrepancies in GDS billing, helping airlines cut unnecessary costs. By catching and correcting errors in GDS charges, airlines can save on their GDS expenses.
  • Improve Future GDS Invoices: Airlines gain transparency into GDS invoices, ensuring accuracy in charges. This helps prevent overbilling and ensures future invoices align with actual usage, making financial management easier.
  • Increase ADM Recovery: we enable airlines to recover lost revenue by generating ADMs for booking discrepancies. By enforcing compliance, airlines can recover a substantial portion of previously lost revenue.
  • Improve Agent Behavior: By identifying unproductive booking practices, such as churning and duplicate bookings, Accelya BIDT Audit helps educate travel agents. Penalizing non-compliance with ADMs encourages agents to follow booking policies, reducing future booking abuses.

Airlines typically see results within 6 to 12 months.

Accelya BIDT Audit works seamlessly with Sales Audit to provide a holistic approach to revenue assurance, stop revenue leakage from booking to flown and enhancing per-passenger profitability of $0.60 per passenger boarded. It provides airlines with peace of mind that comes with a single owner overseeing and addressing all leakages throughout the booking-to-flown lifecycle.

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