GSA air travel program to save agencies $2.44B for FY18

Federal Times: A General Services Administration air travel contracts award will save the government approximately $2.44 billion for Fiscal Year 2018.

Leveraging the government’s buying power through a strategically sourced program, the government pre-negotiates prices with eight major U.S. carriers for federal government official travel to/from 9,207 markets and establishes a firm-fixed-price offering a 53-percent discount on commercial fares.

“GSA’s ‘Best-in-Class’ City Pair Program is a valuable tool to help us accomplish our goal of helping federal agencies save valuable taxpayer dollars,” Alan Thomas, GSA’s federal acquisition service commissioner, said in a press release.

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