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Letter from AmTrav CEO Jeff Klee
This letter from AmTrav CEO Jeff Klee was sent to AmTrav customers.
Jeff Klee at The Beat Live 2023: "The End of the Beginning"
Last December, our CEO Jeff Klee delivered the keynote speech at The Beat Live Conference in New York City, which brings together senior executives from the corporate travel distribution and technolog...
Amid Growing Pains, A Reminder Why We’re Still All-In on NDC
This is an adapted version of a guest-post that was originally published by The Beat. Alexander Winton, a pioneer of the American automobile industry who sold the first automobile in the country in 18...
Things You Should Know Before Booking Your Next Hotel Stay
At the risk of boring you to death, I am going to talk a little about what happens “under the hood” when you book a hotel room on a travel site, partly because I like talking about this stuff (I’m wei...
A Struggle To Put 2020 Accomplishments In Context
It wasn’t a typical New Year’s Eve, but 2020 is finally behind us. In a few days we’ll get back to work and there are newfound reasons to be hopeful. But after a sober night and a sobering year, it is...
Why I'm So Excited About AmTrav's New Flight Shopping Tool
In the summer of 2019, back when conferences were still a thing, I was invited to speak at an industry event in Geneva about airlines’ effort to modernize flight shopping technology (a passion of mine...
Why We Decided to Build Our Own Chat Platform
Like the proverbial tree that falls in the woods with no one around to hear it, what if we made a great enhancement to our travel platform but nobody even noticed? Could we still call it “great?”
With Change Fees Gone, Can We Fix the Rest of What's Wrong With Airline Pricing?
This Op-Ed first appeared September 9, 2020 on Phocuswire.
From Our CEO: Sad Times, Green Shoots, and Trying Not to Waste a Crisis
Although it seems like a lifetime ago, last weekend I watched the SpaceX ship blast off and eventually dock with the international space station. It was a desperately needed reminder amid everything g...