Make your corporate travel budget go 40% further in 2025
Smarter tools, deeper expertise, and personal service are built to deliver you more from every booking.
At Business First Partnership (BFP), we don’t just book your travel, we uncover hidden value, simplify decision-making, and give you total visibility over your spend. That’s how we’ve helped our customers consistently make their travel budgets go up to 40% further, without cutting back.
With budgets constantly being squeezed, do you know the hidden costs of your corporate travel?
Headline costs are easy to track. It’s the hidden inefficiencies that quietly add up.
- Flights are booked before the best fares are loaded.
- Missed opportunities for upgrades or loyalty rewards
- Fare drops that happen after ticketing which often go unclaimed
- Extended support fees for late approvals or overseas calls
- “Could have saved” line items in post-trip reports
These aren’t rare, they’re routine and most travel management companies either don’t have the tools to catch them or don’t take the time to look.
See how our tech finds you savings
even after you book…
How we maximise value for your business
It’s the kind of attention most travel management companies skip,
we don’t and our clients love us for it.
Fares audit, checking beyond the basics
Led by our specialist fares team, we manually review every long-haul booking. Why? Because promotional fares are launched constantly, and most systems don’t catch them in time. While others stop at “held bookings,” we go further, saving money where others simply won’t look.
- This applies to online and offline bookings
- Unlocks fares not yet visible in GDS
£20 billion buying power backed with personal service
Through our global strategic partnerships, we give you the best rates and leverage of a multinational, combined with a personal, independent, high-touch service. It really is the best of both worlds.
- Enterprise-level air and hotel deals
- A true partnership, not just fulfilment
Extended opening
hours without the fees
Open from 6 am to 10 pm, we help your team act when it counts whether that’s after late meetings, across time zones, or in late-evening approval windows.
- Avoid overnight fare hikes
- Finalise bookings on your time
- No late-night surcharge surprises
Access to global market fares
Your travellers fly to and from everywhere, not just the UK. We give you access to local market fares globally, through our international platform. This is essential for global teams and multinational customers.
- Match local market pricing
- Avoid fare disparities across regions
Minimum 10 years experience, per consultant
Our team brings real expertise, not just system training. Every BFP consultant has a decade or more of experience and that translates directly into better fares, more flexibility, and smarter solutions.
- Live fare expertise, not system guesses
- Real experience solving real-world travel challenges
- Proactive, human support at every step of the journey
Fully manged corporate rewards
British Airways On Business and similar schemes are often underused. We manage and apply your points across bookings and provide a quarterly reward summary.
- Maximise every point
- Never lose value to expiry
- Free flights that get redeemed
Proactive value-adds (like complimentary upgrades)
When airlines launch hidden-value promotions (like Business to First upgrades), we don’t leave it to chance. We:
- Run daily reports
- Match bookings against eligibility
- Proactively contact you to apply the upgrade
Find out how your travel budget
could go up to 40% further
Technology that works behind the scenes
(and ahead of time)
Fare Finder
Built to catch
what others miss
- Detects fare drops
- Monitors waitlists
- Optimises inventory after booking
Inventory changes constantly. Our Fare Finder scans every 20 seconds, including held and ticketed bookings to capture savings when seats are released back into the system.
Auto Approve
Real-time visibility
for budget holders
- Supports smarter decisions
- Encourages behavioural change
- Stops budget leakage before it starts
No more “missed savings” highlighted weeks after travel. Our tool flags them before booking confirmation, so you can review decisions and keep spend in-policy.
Smart Analytics
Intelligence that
drives strategy
- Spot cost-driving behaviours
- Uncover hidden savings
- Identify trends, quick wins and long-term optimisation opportunities
Our Smart Analytics platform gives you real-time visibility into how your business travels; highlighting last-minute booking habits, missed planning opportunities, key routes, cost centres, and risk areas, helping you shape a more cost-effective travel programme.
What our clients say...
Ready to make your budget go further?
Whether you’re managing a tight budget or simply want to optimise spend, we’ll help you uncover hidden value in your current programme and make every trip deliver more.
Talk to our team, at a time that suits you, about how we stretch travel budgets without a reduction in service.