TRX TRAVEL ANALYTICS.

The tools below help you make fast and easy estimates of potential savings in each of the major travel categories. These tools are not intended to provide rigorous or detailed analyses; doing so requires access to more detailed data and more sophisticated analytical tools. But if you need a quick "what if?" estimate, these will do the job — and they look great in presentations!

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Free Tools: Airline Sourcing

Airfare Fuel Cost Model
Over the past few years the airline industry has been raising fares aggressively - and justifying the hikes by pointing to the increased cost of jet fuel. Here's a handy model that let's you see just how much of a fare increase can be tied to a change in the cost of fuel. (Be sure to use the model in PowerPoint's "Slideshow" mode.) 		 
Airline Category Strategies
This briefing document highlights the lessons learned from last year, the challenges facing travel and procurement managers, and key issues in developing a successful category strategy. Readers will find four logical strategic paths that spring from the basic question "How much savings do we need this year?" An excellent staring point for thinking critically about your company's airline program. 		   
Domestic Airline Strategies
Wondering how to best respond to the recent airfare changes in the US? Need to know the financial impact of the new deals being offered? We list six strategies for your consideration - and can quickly help you choose the right one for your program.		    
Airline Sourcing Project Stress Test
Here is a terrific tool for evaluating - and improving - your next airline sourcing project. This self-scoring questionnaire evaluates dozens of key project elements - elements that we've found to be important to airline sourcing teams around the world. Use this tool to identify the likely stress points in your project. You'll have a clear road map for executing a low-stress, high-success airline sourcing project within 20 minutes! 		 
 
Airline RFP Request for Proposal
This RFP template will help you organize the essential elements of your airline travel patterns and supplier requirements, while providing the airlines with a clear bidding format. 		   
TANGO and BRAVO Data Formats
This file describes the various data formats we can work with in order to apply TANGO, BRAVO or CASA. Use this file to show your travel agency or data consolidator the definitions and formats they'll need to use in reporting your airline travel data to us.		    
Travel and Procurement: Getting the Best of Both Worlds
This model focuses on recognizing the different strengths of procurement managers and travel managers, how to select an optimal sourcing strategy, choosing the right travel policies, developing realistic savings estimates, turning data into actionable initiatives, and tips for managing the ongoing spend. 		   
TAPS: Travel Analytics’ Policy Scorer
Use TAPST to grade how strongly your company's travel policy is written, communicated, supported and enforced. The overall score can be cited in an RFP as a way to help communicate how successful your company will be in enforcing its travel policy. Creates "Today" and "In 3 Months" scores to show how a forthcoming policy might be expected to differ from the current policy. Published in Excel, it is a 45-question self-scoring survey. Instructions are included in the workbook.