Concur says its Cliqbook Travel and Travel & Expense clients can now compare rail and air options in one display and book Amtrak routes across the country.
With the Concur-Amtrak agreement, Concur clients can also hold rail or cancel rail reservations, access Amtrak special rates, book multi-segment trips, and facilitate payment and ticketing without any travel agency intervention, among other features, Concur says.
In other news, Concur extended its partnership with OAG by subscribing to an enhanced flights stats service which Concur says updates flight schedules approximately every 20 seconds.
"If I'm in a cab on the way to the airport and open Concur Mobile I can see the gate where I'm departing," Fred Fredericks, Concur's vice president, research and development, referring to the new capabilities with OAG. "I'm sitting in a meeting and I can see if the flight is on time or if it's delayed. If you're a travel arranger using the travel arranger view in Cliqbook, where you can see all the travelers you're responsible for, you can see who is going to arrive late or on time to be proactive if arrangements have to change."
"When you combine this new service with Concur Mobile's pre-existing capabilities to view flight schedules and even change air tickets, it really arms a traveler to be able to stay in control of their travel situation wherever they are, within an application that is linked directly to their corporate travel program and their travel management company," Fredericks says.
Previously, Concur received OAG schedules through GDS connections, but the enhanced access to OAG enables Concur to speed performance for clients, Fredericks says.