Icelandic travel planning company dohop.com has teamed up with Iceland Express and Canadian airline WestJet to offer online flight connection services.
The service “helps the airlines to fill more seats because it enables them to connect passengers to other destinations”, dohop chief executive Frosti Sigurjonsson told Travelmole.
WestJet’s website now informs passengers about connecting flights with various partner airlines including: British Airways, Aer Lingus and Icelandair. The service offers customers good connections but without the costs of legacy interline.
Meanwhile Iceland Express will offer users of its website dohop’s global flight network, excluding competitors.
Benefits for passengers include the need to only enter their details once when they book connecting low-cost flights.
“We have the technology that can connect any airline to partner with another airline who has a complementary route network and they can cross-sell for each other,” Sigurjonsson added.
Dohop’s technology has been praised by the likes of The Times and CNN, and the company was also named best travel technology firm at the Travelmole Web Awards 2006.
