Booking Terms and Conditions

Please read these Booking Conditions carefully. You must not make any booking unless you understand and agree with these Booking Conditions. The person making the booking will be deemed to have accepted these Booking Conditions on behalf of all travellers named in the booking.

References to "us", "we", "our" and “Corporate Traveller” mean Flight Centre (UK) Limited trading as Corporate Traveller, company number 02937210. Our registered address is 4th Floor, 120 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1RH.

Understanding these Booking Conditions

The provider of your travel service will have its own terms and conditions (such as airline conditions of carriage or accommodation or car hire terms). All such terms and conditions (including limitations of liability) apply to these Booking Conditions for each travel service you book through us and, accordingly, a reference to “these Booking Conditions” shall mean the terms and conditions set out herein, the terms and conditions set out in your credit account approval letter (if applicable) and all terms and conditions of any provider of your travel services. To the extent of any inconsistency between a travel service provider’s terms and conditions and the terms and conditions set out herein, the travel service provider’s terms and conditions shall prevail, save to the extent that any provision in the travel service provider’s terms and conditions is deemed to be invalid or unenforceable. Your travel service providers will be identified on your itinerary or travel documents and their respective terms and conditions will be available directly on their websites or by contacting them. Alternatively you can ask us for copies. You must read all applicable travel service provider terms and conditions carefully because in every case they will apply to the provision of your travel services.   

Price

Where we provide you with a quote for a scheduled airline ticket, the price shall be valid until close of business on the day of the quote or such shorter time we may specify (excluding airline taxes, which are subject to change and may be re-quoted at the time your booking is confirmed). In all other cases, prices are subject to availability and can be withdrawn or changed without notice. Price changes may occur by reason of matters outside our control which increase the cost of the product or service. Such factors include adverse currency fluctuations, fuel surcharges, taxes and airfare increases. Please contact your Expert Travel Consultant for up to date prices.

Payment terms

Credit card payments will be taken at time of booking/invoicing and will incur merchant fees. You authorise us to charge all fees incurred by you in relation to the services provided to the card designated by you. If payment is not received from the card issuer or its agents for any reason, you agree to pay us all amounts due immediately on demand. You indemnify us against any loss that may be experienced by us due to any fraudulent use or otherwise of that credit card.

Credit accounts must be settled fortnightly by direct debit or bank transfer. We will send you bi-monthly statements of all bookings made during the previous period. All statements

must be paid no later than 14 days from the date of receipt, and paid to the account set out in your credit approval letter. You authorise us to conduct a credit check prior to approving your credit account.

If you have been approved for extend credit terms (i.e. terms outside of fortnightly payment) you agree to pay the extended credit surcharge. The extended credit surcharge may at our discretion be varied or changed upon thirty (30) days’ notice and must be paid in accordance with the agreed invoice terms.

We may charge statutory interest and compensation for debt recovery costs under late payment legislation for all overdue amounts.

Amendment and cancellation fees

Cancelled bookings may incur charges. These charges can be up to 100% of the cost of the booking, regardless of whether travel has commenced. Fees and extra charges may also apply where a booking is changed and when tickets or documents are re-issued. Where we incur any liability for a travel service provider cancellation fee or charge for any booking which you cancel, you agree to indemnify us for the amount of that fee or charge. Where you seek a refund for a cancelled booking for which payment has been made to the travel service provider, we will not provide a refund to you until we receive the funds from that travel service provider.

If you have purchased a return flight, multi-stop or round the world flight and you do not check in on a confirmed flight, the airline will register you as a ‘no show’ and your tickets on your subsequent flights will be cancelled. Please contact your Expert Travel Consultant as soon as possible if you do not intend to check-in for a confirmed reservation in these circumstances.

Passports & visas

All travellers must have a valid passport for international travel and many countries require at least 6 months validity from the date of return. Some countries also require a machine-readable passport and/or unstamped available pages. When assisting with an international travel booking, we will assume that all travellers on the booking have a valid passport. If this is not the case, you must let us know. It is important to ensure you have valid passports, visas and re-entry permits which meet the requirements of immigration and other government authorities. Any fines, penalties, payments, delay or expenditures incurred as a result of such documents not meeting the requirements of those authorities will be your sole responsibility (except to the extent caused by fault on our part). 

If you need information regarding visas, passports and other travel document requirements for your trip, please contact your Expert Travel Consultant. We can provide you with general information on visa and passport requirements that apply to international travel bookings you make with us. Your Expert Travel Consultant can also obtain more specific information from an external visa advisory service provider on your behalf (if you wish, we can obtain visas for you through this external service and fees will apply). We do not warrant the accuracy of visa and passport information provided by any external service and accept no liability for any loss or damage which you may suffer in reliance on it (except to the extent caused by fault on our part).

If you are travelling to the United States please see https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov for important information regarding compulsory pre-registration for their visa waiver program (“ESTA”). If you have registered before, please check your registration is valid and has not lapsed. Please note, you may not meet the eligibility requirements of ESTA and may be required to obtain a visa.

Travel insurance

For all travel we strongly recommend that you take out appropriate travel insurance to cover your travel arrangements. Travel insurance is also recommended by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for all overseas travel. It is your responsibility to ensure you have valid travel insurance that covers and is appropriate for your needs. We will not be liable for any loss you incur if and insofar as you are able to claim for damages under a travel insurance policy. We can arrange travel insurance for you or provide you with a quote or general information about the travel insurance options available to you.

Travel advice

The Foreign and Commonwealth Travel Advice Unit may have issued information about your travel destination. We strongly advise you go to www.fco.gov.uk to find out more about your destination prior to the commencement of travel. Alternatively, you can contact ABTA Information Department on 0203 117 0599 (calls will be charged). 

Health

You must ensure that you are aware of any health requirements and recommended precautions relevant to your travel and ensure that you carry all necessary vaccination documentation. In some cases, failure to present required vaccination documentation (e.g. proof of Yellow Fever vaccination) may deny you entry into a country or invalidate your travel insurance cover. We recommend that you consult with your local doctor, travel medical service or specialist vaccination clinic before commencing your travel. We would be happy to provide you details of travel clinics on request.

Agency

When you make a booking with us, you acknowledge and agree that we will be acting as an agent only for the relevant transport, accommodation or other travel service provider. Our obligation to you is to (and you expressly authorise us to) make travel bookings on your behalf and to arrange relevant contracts between you and travel service providers. The travel service provider, and not Corporate Traveller, will be responsible to you for the provision of the relevant travel service. Any services we provide to you are collateral to our agency relationship with the travel service provider and are separate to the actual provision of the travel services. Your legal recourse for travel services is against the specific travel service provider and, except to the extent a problem is caused by fault on our part, not against us. Specifically, if for any reason (excluding fault on our part), any travel service provider is unable to provide the travel services for which you have contracted, your remedy lies against the travel service provider and not with us.

Liability

We exercise care in the selection of reputable travel service providers but we are not ourselves a provider of travel services and have no control over, or liability for, the services provided by third parties. We are responsible to ensure that we process your booking with reasonable skill and care and, accordingly, our liability to you (except for fraud, or death or personal injury caused by our negligence) will be limited to supplying the relevant service again or paying the cost of having the relevant service supplied again. Our liability will also be limited to the extent that any relevant international conventions, for example the Montreal Convention in respect of travel by air, the Athens Convention in respect of travel by sea, the Berne Convention in respect of travel by rail and the Paris Convention in respect of the provision of accommodation, limit the amount of compensation which can be claimed for death, injury, or delay to passengers and loss, damage and delay to luggage.

In no event do we accept any liability in contract, tort or otherwise, for any injury, damage, loss, delay, additional expense or inconvenience caused directly or indirectly by the acts, omissions or default, whether negligent or otherwise, of third party providers over whom we have no direct control, force majeure or any other event which is beyond our control or which is not preventable by reasonable diligence on our part. We also do not accept any liability in contract, tort or otherwise, for consequential loss (meaning indirect loss, loss of revenue, loss of reputation, loss of profits, loss of actual or anticipated savings, lost opportunities, including opportunities to enter into arrangements with third parties or loss or damage in connection with claims against you by third parties) howsoever caused in connection with your booking.

Special requirements

Please liaise with your Expert Travel Consultant regarding any special requirements you may have for your travel arrangements such as special meal and seating requests, room type or disabled access. Please understand that travel service providers may not be able to accommodate every request.

Frequent Flyer

When booking with your Expert Travel Consultant, please let them know your frequent flyer membership details (or other applicable loyalty program details) for inclusion in your booking. Please check your frequent flyer program (or other applicable loyalty program) for the specific terms of your membership. We cannot guarantee that the travel service provider will credit you with points for your booking. Any loyalty program discrepancies in relation to your booking must be communicated to us within six months of your flight departure date.

Travel documents

Travel documents include airline tickets, hotel vouchers, tour vouchers or any other document (whether in electronic form or otherwise) used to confirm an arrangement with a travel service provider. Travel documents may be subject to certain conditions and/or restrictions including (without limitation) being non-refundable, non-date-changeable, non-transferable and subject to cancellation and/or amendment fees. Travel documents cannot be transferred to another person to use. All airline tickets must be issued in the name of the passport/photo identity holder. An incorrect name on a booking or on the travel documents may result in an inability to travel on that booking and the booking being cancelled. Please review your travel documentation carefully and advise us immediately of any errors in names, dates and timings. You must ensure you have all your travel documents and e-tickets prior to travel. Please let us know if you believe you have not received any required documentation. Please note that bookings we make on your behalf for corporate travel are not protected under the ATOL scheme.

A flight described on your travel documents and/or itinerary as “direct” will not necessarily be non-stop. All departure/arrival times are provided by the airlines concerned and are estimates only. They may change due to air traffic control restrictions, weather conditions and operational requirements.

Privacy notice and overseas data transfer

We are committed to protecting your employees’ personal information and agree to process such information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is available online at www.corptraveller.com/en-gb. By providing personal information to us, you agree that our Privacy Policy will apply to how we handle such personal information and you consent to us collecting, using, disclosing and otherwise processing that information as detailed in our Privacy Policy. In particular, you agree that in certain circumstances (such as where we are requested to book international travel for your employees), we are permitted to disclose personal information to overseas recipients. Such recipients may include the overseas travel service provider(s) (e.g. airlines, accommodation or tour providers) with whom you seek to make a booking. These travel service providers will in most cases receive personal information in the country in which they will provide the services to you or in which their business is managed or based. We may also disclose personal information to our overseas related entities and to service providers who perform services for us within and outside of the UK. Generally, we will only disclose personal information to these overseas recipients in connection with facilitation of your travel booking and/or to enable the performance of administrative and technical services by them on our behalf. Where we disclose personal information to any person (including all overseas recipients), you agree that the recipient may be located in a country with laws that do not protect personal information as stringently as those in the UK. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the recipient's compliance with the privacy/data protection laws by which we are bound. However, we deal with thousands of travel service providers around the world (some of which are very small operations or are located in countries with laws, and/or in regions with technology, which may not be as advanced as those in the UK). Therefore, with the exclusion of our overseas related entities with whom we share personal information, we cannot control the privacy practices of all overseas recipients to whom personal information may be disclosed and, accordingly, where your requested travel arrangements require that personal information be sent to an overseas recipient (other than any of our overseas related entities), you agree that Corporate Traveller will not be liable or accountable for how those recipients handle such information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party service provider whose services we arrange on your behalf.  If you or any of your employees have any objections to personal information being disclosed to an overseas recipient, please let us know.

Money not held on trust

All money paid by you to us will be our property and will be a debt due and payable to the travel service provider. You agree and acknowledge that such money will not be held by us on trust for and on behalf of you and we may hold such money in any account as we see fit, including with our own and/or our other clients’ money.

Third party rights

A person who is not a party to these Booking Conditions shall have no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of these Booking Conditions. This paragraph does not affect any right or remedy of any person which exists or is available otherwise than pursuant to that Act.

Anti-bribery and corruption

Each party shall comply, and shall ensure that each of its employees, officers, directors, contractors and agents complies with all applicable laws, regulations, codes and sanctions, including but not limited to anti-bribery and corruption, foreign corrupt practices and anti-terrorism laws and specifically the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Australia), the Bribery Act 2010 (UK) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 (USA). Neither party shall engage in any course of conduct that would cause the other party to be in violation of the laws of any jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the laws, regulations, codes and sanctions referred to in this clause. Each party shall ensure that it has in place and maintains policies and procedures adequate to prevent bribery and corruption, foreign corrupt practices and terrorism and to ensure compliance with the applicable laws, regulations, codes and sanctions referred to in this clause. Each party shall, and shall ensure that each of its employees, officers, directors, contractors and agents shall uphold the highest standards of business ethics and conduct, and undertake not to give or receive any advantage that could be perceived as payment or receipt of a bribe, not to make facilitation payments and not to bribe a foreign public official.

Governing law and severance

If any dispute arises in relation to these Booking Conditions, the laws of England will apply. You irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and waive any right that you may have to object to an action being brought in those courts. Any provision (or part of any provision) of these Booking Conditions which is invalid in any jurisdiction is invalid in that jurisdiction to that extent, without invalidating or affecting the remaining provisions (or part provision) or the validity of that provision in any other jurisdiction.

EU Community List

We are required to bring to your attention the existence of a 'Community List', which contains details of air carriers that are subject to an operating ban within the EU. The Community List is available for inspection at www.ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/safety/air-ban/index_en.htm.