Resources
Guides for travel programmes that aren't simple.
Practical, vendor-neutral writing on corporate travel policy, asset utilisation, and getting more value from a travel programme — written for organisations whose travel involves owned, leased, or chartered transport.
Guide · 9 min read
What a corporate travel policy should include
The ten elements of a travel policy that actually gets followed — from approval workflows and expense quotas to duty of care, credential management, and the technology that makes complex policy enforceable.
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How to write a seat allocation policy for leased aircraft
When the seat has no fare, the policy is the only thing rationing it. The seven elements of a seat allocation policy a booking engine can execute — priority matrix, quotas, booking windows, displacement, penalties and go-shows, entitlements — and the mistakes that make one unenforceable.
Read the guide →Guide · 7 min read
No-shows, go-shows, and the cost of empty seats
Every empty seat on a leased aircraft is money already spent. How penalties, quotas, and go-show automation turn wasted capacity into utilisation — and why most travel systems can't do it.
Read the guide →Developer reference · API
API and operational ontology reference
The domain model behind UnityTrip — passenger types, trip reasons, priorities, quotas, penalties, segments — and the deterministic endpoints that execute it: the policy engine that validates every booking, plus booking and approvals.
Read the reference →Developer reference · Webhooks
Claim Approvals Webhook Reference
Event types and payload schemas for the UnityTrip claim approvals webhook — the common envelope, each event, and example JSON for building your receiving integration.
Read the reference →Free tool
Leased Travel Policy Builder
A free, no-account, in-browser tool that turns leased-travel rules — priority, quotas, seat allocation, and booking windows — into a structured JSON policy a deterministic booking engine can execute. Priority replaces price.
Open the tool →Reference · Definitions
Glossary of leased and operational travel
Plain definitions of the terms that govern owned, leased, and chartered travel — leased travel policy, priority matrix, quotas, seat allocation, go-shows, displacement, sector restrictions, and more.
Read the glossary →Benchmarks · What good looks like
Leased fleet travel benchmarks
What good looks like in leased-fleet travel: why fleets run at a 40% industry-average utilisation, the levers that lift it well beyond that, and what policy-governed allocation can achieve — with definitions.
See the benchmarks →Buyer's guide
How to evaluate FIFO and leased-fleet travel platforms
Ten questions that separate the platforms in this category — single PNR or two systems, policy engine or manifest tool, finance integration, surge architecture, measured outcomes, and whether the platform governs money as well as movement. Put them to every vendor, including us.
Read the guide →Videos · Transcripts
The AI layer, shown working
A full AI booking in conversation, walkthrough with transcript — and the deterministic engine deciding underneath.
Watch and read →Category definition
What is workforce aviation logistics?
Flying your workforce on aircraft you own or lease — and why that is neither crew rostering nor conventional corporate travel. The category defined, disambiguated, and mapped to its regional names.
Read the definition →Free Template
Corporate travel policy template
Twelve sections, free to download and adapt, no account required — including the sections generic templates omit: owned and leased transport, and the link between approval and payment.
Get the template →The Platform Thesis
The interface is a projection of the model
One canonical model of workforce movement, configured per tenant and executed deterministically — why UnityTrip is an ontology-driven platform whose first vertical is workforce travel, and why it stays travel-first.
Read the thesis →Operational Continuity
Institutional memory: the platform that remembers
Remote operations churn people by design, and the reasons behind the rules leave with them. How an event-sourced record, a machine-readable policy, and a named ontology keep the knowledge when teams change.
Read the argument →Vertical
Crew change logistics
Vessel crew rotation as one governed journey — chartered flight, crew boat, and ground transport under one PNR, with sail periods, per-sailing quotas, and one priority matrix when the boat is full.
Read the page →Questions and answers
Questions from operations teams
The questions the people who run the system every day ask, answered plainly — UX, how fast change ships, support roles under automation, bad upstream data, and outage risk.
Read the answers →Comparison
UnityTrip and SAP S/4HANA
SAP stays the ERP that runs the operation; UnityTrip runs travel and fleet above it — what crosses the boundary, what happens when the feed is wrong, and why travel keeps moving when the ERP is down.
Read the comparison →Guide · 9 min read
Cancellations and refunds on subsidised staff travel
When staff pay by card for seats on company aircraft, the organisation is the airline. State lives per passenger per segment, money lives per booking: the value line frozen at booking, the two ledgers, the three ways a refund ledger drifts, a worked example, and why a decision queue comes before automation.
Read the guide →Comparison
UnityTrip and process intelligence platforms
A twin reconstructed from event logs versus the authoritative travel record — what a twin cannot see of how an organisation moves people, why a reconciliation beats a pattern, who decides a finding is real, and how the two run together.
Read the comparison →Engagement
Travel Operations Review: review, diagnose, treat
Expertise first. A fixed-scope, priced review of your movement and claim records, read access only: the ten largest recoverable opportunities ranked by money, checked by people who have run the operation, and treated in the platform if you choose. Findings yours either way.
How a review runs →Company overview · PDF
UnityTrip company overview
The whole platform in ten pages: the problem, the policy engine, outcomes, architecture, integrations, and how to buy — a take-away document for evaluation teams and procurement.
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