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22 October 07 VIRGIN NIGERIA INTRODUCES NEW ONLINE RESERVATION AND PAYMENT SYSTEM.
Lagos, Nigeria: October 22, 2007: Virgin Nigeria, in line with its dedicated commitment to partner with all travel agents, has introduced a new on-line reservation and payment portal known as the “On-line Agency Booking System” (OABS).. The newly introduced on-line reservation and payment portal enables all Travel agents to book and make payments for all Virgin Nigeria tickets on-line with interswitch ATM debit cards and earn immediate commissions on every transaction. Making the announcement in Lagos over the weekend, Virgin Nigeria’s Director of Sales & Outstations, Mrs. Adeola Bali said that the introduction of the On-line Agency Booking System (OABS) will help to reduce the risk of erroneous entries that occur in manual transactions as the agents’ sales network will be integrated into Virgin Nigeria’s systems. Furthermore, she said reconciliations would be more accurate as it would be conducted electronically with an automatic update of sales.
Speaking further on the introduction, Mrs. Adeola Bali said: “With the new reservation and booking system, travel agents will have a seamless service delivery as they will have immediate response to reservations, confirmations as well as make payments anywhere and at anytime through online payment portals which will reduce risks associated with cash transfers”.
She further noted that Virgin Nigeria understands the importance of cost control to the travel agent and the on-line agency booking system serves as an extremely cost effective way of booking and securing seats on the airline.
Since the launch of its commercial operations Virgin Nigeria has been at the forefront of introducing innovative and customer friendly products to make air travel in Nigeria a pleasurable experience. Virgin Nigeria pioneered on-line reservations and payments system as well as mobile phone enabled booking processes.
Other notable efforts by Virgin Nigeria include the recent signing of Airlogica, one of the world’s leading companies in distribution software and specialists in cost control and revenue management options to provide software that allows Virgin Nigeria to monitor all bookings made by her ticketing and travel agents.
About Virgin Nigeria:
Virgin Nigeria is the registered, fully private sector flag carrier
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, owned 51% by Nigerian Institutional
shareholders and 49% by Virgin Atlantic.
The airline operates the following
intercontinental services:
Lagos to London: Daily
Johannesburg: Three times a week
Regional services:
Accra: Eleven times a week
Douala: Three times a week
Dakar: Three times a week
Domestic services:
Lagos - Abuja: Seven times daily
***Lagos - Owerri:
Once daily
***Lagos - Port Harcourt:
Four
times daily
Lagos - Kano:: Six times a week
Abuja - Kano: Six times a week
Lagos - Sokoto (via Abuja): Three times a week
Abuja - Sokoto: Three times a week
Lagos- Calabar: Six times a week
For reservations, call (01) 460 0505; (01) 271 1111; (09) 461 0505;
(084) 460505
For all press enquiries, please contact: corporatecommunications@virginnigeria.com
For media information in Nigeria only, please contact Corporate
Communications, 9th Floor, Etiebets Place , 21 Mobolaji Bank-Anthony
Way,Ikeja,Lagos., or
corpcomm@virginnigeria.com;
234 -1 – 2711144
For media information in the UK please contact the Virgin Atlantic
Press Office on 01293 747 373.
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