Pipeline Software is devoted exclusively to offering technological solutions to travel agencies in Spain where they are leaders in the market. With a customer base of over 1,800 Spanish travel agencies, they offer a range of complementary technological services including services related to booking systems.

The significant size and the high penetration of low cost airlines in the country mean that Spain represents an important market for FlightScanner. More than two thirds of the 60 main low cost carriers serve Spain, making FlightScanner an ideal tool for travel agents booking both in and outbound flights for the country.

Commenting on the agreement Roberto Da Re, Dolphin Dynamics President, said, “We are pleased to have this opportunity to team up with Pipeline. FlightScanner has already generated a considerable amount of interest in Spain and Pipeline’s expertise and presence in this market will enable us to capitalise on this potential."

Pipeline Software President, Manuel Jose Sos Gallen, added, “FlightScanner is an excellent complement to our portfolio of technology for travel agencies. We are convinced that this collaboration with Dolphin Dynamics is a very positive move and it will allow us to provide Spanish travel agencies with this useful tool.”

Pipeline and their network of collaborators across Spain will promote the full range of FlightScanner products, including the travel agent web-based tool and booking engine technology, as well as providing first line customer support.

Dolphin Dynamics plans to apply this model to other markets and is already in discussions with distributors in several countries.

FlightScanner helps travel agents keep their competitive advantage by searching the Internet for information not available on their GDS screen and doing so much more quickly than their customers.

Over 5,000 international travel agencies (2500 UK, 2200 Europe, 180 US) have registered on the FlightScanner web site at www.flightscanner.biz and over 20,000 individual users have used the system since its launch in April 2002.

FlightScanner boosts agent productivity much more than other search engines. It not only searches across multiple airline web sites in real time from a single search screen, but it also takes the agent directly to the actual booking page of the selected carrier’s website without having to re-enter any of the itinerary detail and automates the entire process.

With more travel agents charging transaction fees, being able to quickly find and book a web fare is fundamental to their profitability and is a service that their customers expect, just as happens with traditional carriers available in the GDS. FlightScanner, coupled with Dolphin for Window’s ability to automatically calculate transaction fees, allows leisure and business travel agents to ensure that all options are offered to the customer and that at invoicing time the correct fee is applied to that transaction.

Once the agent has registered with FlightScanner and is given a password to access the protected site, searching with FlightScanner only takes 3 steps. First, the user enters the search criteria. Second, FlightScanner checks all of the supported sites that cover that route and brings back the results of the search. Third and finally, the user selects the fare required and FlightScanner opens a new browser window taking the user directly to the booking page for the fare selected.

Travel agents can visit www.flightscanner.biz and register to use the search engine for free for a limited time. ABTA/IATA/TID members will get immediate access to the system while non members will need to be contacted to validate that they are indeed a travel agent.

FlightScanner’s clients include: BTI Hogg Robinson, Carlson WagonLit, Portman Travel, STA Travel, Ian Allan Travel, Ilkeston Coop Travel, DER (Germany), Uniglobe, Cresta Holidays.

Dolphin Dynamics Ltd. was founded in 1994 and has its headquarters in London with a distribution office in Italy. Dolphin Dynamics Ltd. is a software development company specialised in developing information solutions for the travel industry including Dolphin Travel Manager, Dolphin Private Fares Air & Land and Dolphin FlightScanner. Since its first product release in late 1996, Dolphin Dynamics has installed its software at over 650 client sites, large and small, for a total of over 8000 users in 20 countries. With a combined staff of 40, Dolphin Dynamics also provides customised solutions and consulting via its internal technical consultants and external partners.

Dolphin Dynamics’ UK clients include: ebookers, Travelbag, Wexas International, TUI UK, Uniglobe Travel, RCI International, Globespan, Global Village Travel Centre and Tailor Made Travel to name a few.

Dolphin Travel Manager is the first true mainstream Windows based, client/server, front, mid, back office automation tool for travel agencies that fully and seamlessly integrates in real time with all 4 major world-wide Global Distribution Systems and Viewdata simultaneously.

Dolphin FlightScanner (www.flightscanner.biz) helps travel agents keep their competitive advantage by searching the Internet for information not available on their GDS screen and doing so much more quickly than their customers.

Dolphin Private Fares Air & Land are Dolphin’s sophisticated net fares databases and dynamic pricing engines that allow users to efficiently and quickly manage a wide range of negotiated supplier and airline fares contracts.

Pipeline Software: Since 1989 Pipeline Software has been devoted exclusively to offering technological solutions to travel agencies. Working only in Spain, where it is market leader, Pipeline’s main product is ORBIS, a software package for travel agency management, installed in 1,800 Spanish travel agencies. Pipeline also offers complementary technological services to these travel agencies, including services related to booking systems.

At the same time, Pipeline’s Internet Department AAVV.com offers several Internet services to almost 8,000 travel agencies in Spain (80% of the Spanish travel agencies), including: e-mail services for more than 3,000 agencies, micro-sites for 2,000 agencies, all the Internet developing of the main Associations and Managing Groups of the Spanish travel agencies, etc.

Pipeline has their own offices in Castellon and Madrid, accommodating a technical staff of 40 professionals, along with official distributors in Catalonia, Andalucia and Canary Islands and a network of collaborators all over Spain.