2015 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $309.3 million
2015 Global
Air Volume: $333.1 million
Principal
Hotel Suppliers: Hilton,
InterContinental, Marriott
Principal Car
Rental Suppliers: Avis, Budget
Principal
Online Booking Tool: Concur
Travel
Principal Card
Supplier: Citi
Principal
Expense Supplier: Concur Expense
Boeing,
which is a Corporate Travel Department, stopped contracting out its travel
management services to other companies a few years ago. In 2015, it served
87,000 employees of Boeing and its subsidiaries, and they spent a sliver more
on U.S.-booked air volume than in 2014. Of the U.S.-point-of-sale flights, 93
percent are made through Boeing’s approved online tool, and 69 percent of whose
were done without agent assistance.
In
2015, it brought more international locations and subsidiaries under the CTD.
It also upgraded its Concur travel and expense tools and renewed its contract
with that supplier and its contract with its global distribution system. It
updated its policy to cover monthly inflight Wi-Fi subscriptions and to allow
hotel room upgrades given a valid business justification.
This
year, it aims to reduce the nonrefundable ticket credits that expire, bring
more non-U.S. locations under the CTD umbrella, consolidate group/meetings
bookings, implement new mid-office tools and reduce travel costs by 25 percent.
The company expects U.S.-booked air volume to drop to $292.5 million this year.
Boeing is updating travel policy to disallow executives who have corporate cars
from expensing mileage on privately owned vehicles. It’s also fixing a booking
tool glitch that prevented travelers eligible for first class airfare from
voluntarily downgrading to business class; the system previously offered only
coach as an alternative. From 2014 to 2015, Hilton and Marriott remained as
primary hotel suppliers for Boeing, but InterContinental stepped into Hyatt’s
place.