Air Canada Vacations Travel Booking Platform

Global Distribution Systems (GDS) like Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport provide real-time access to airline seats, hotel rooms, and car rentals, enabling instant booking and pricing.

Dynamic packaging automatically bundles flights, hotels, and activities at optimized prices, offering customers personalized vacation packages with real-time availability.

The platform supports credit cards, Interac, PayPal, Apple Pay, and installment options like Affirm, with multi-currency support for CAD, USD, and international currencies.

Aeroplan members can earn and redeem points on vacation bookings, with automatic tier recognition for elite benefits like priority boarding and lounge access.

The Travel Accelerator provides pre-built modules for flight search, ancillary services, seat selection, and travel insurance, reducing development time by 40%.

Real-time pricing connects to Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and supplier APIs to fetch live rates for flights, hotels, and activities at the moment of search. Dynamic pricing algorithms factor in demand, seasonality, competitor rates, and inventory levels to present the most competitive package price, ensuring customers always see accurate, bookable rates.

Integrating multiple providers involves dealing with disparate data formats (XML, JSON, EDIFACT), varying API response times, inconsistent availability windows, and different cancellation policies. The booking engine must normalize all this data into a unified format, handle partial failures gracefully, and maintain transaction consistency across providers with robust error handling and fallback mechanisms.

PCI-DSS compliance requires end-to-end encryption of cardholder data, tokenization of stored payment information, secure key management, and regular vulnerability scanning. We implement payment processing through certified gateways so that sensitive card data never touches the merchant servers. Additionally, audit logging, access controls, and annual penetration testing ensure ongoing compliance throughout the booking lifecycle.

Project timelines vary based on complexity, but typically range from 3 to 6 months. We break down the delivery into agile sprints, ensuring continuous visibility and early value realization.

Yes, we offer comprehensive SLA-based support, including 24/7 monitoring, security patching, performance optimization, and continuous feature enhancements to ensure long-term success.