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Travel management · APAC

Helix TMC reconciled corporate policy with traveler choice.

Helix TMC layered AncillaryOffers on top of its policy engine to surface compliant ancillaries that travelers actually wanted — and proved per-program savings.

+34%

Compliant ancillary attach

47%

Reduction in policy exception requests

12

Enterprise programs migrated

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Helix TMC

Travel management

APAC


In this story

The challenge

What we were asked to solve.

Helix's policy engine often suppressed ancillary offers entirely, frustrating travelers and driving exception requests. Travel managers couldn't see whether ancillary spend was actually delivering value.

The approach

How we deployed.

  • 1

    Embedded the offer engine downstream of the policy engine to merchandise within policy.

  • 2

    Built a per-program reporting layer showing ancillary spend, savings vs. open-market price, and traveler NPS.

  • 3

    Deployed a policy-aware bundle linter to surface non-compliant configurations before they hit travelers.

Outcomes

What changed.

  • 34% lift in compliant ancillary attach.
  • 47% drop in policy exception requests.
  • Per-program reporting now standard in QBRs with corporate clients.

Our travelers got to pick the seat or bag they wanted, our managers got the reporting, and policy stayed honored. That's the trifecta.

ST

S. Tan

Chief Product Officer, Helix TMC · Helix TMC

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