Welcome to Airocheck Audit

Our goal is to establish a standard of true transparency and buyer-supplier balance in the travel supply chain, globally.
 

It all started when…

What We Do

We help procurement managers reduce and manage travel costs by providing audits that shine a light onto costly dark patches of the travel supply chain.

The travel supply chain is opaque and it is conflicted. We help you to build transparent arrangements with your travel suppliers without hidden costs, so that suppliers make a good profit and buyers have measurably good deals.

We do three types of audit.

  1. We audit your airfares to check for hidden mark-ups.

  2. We audit your airfares and hotel rates to check for costly commission chasing.

  3. We check your TMC fees for accuracy and correct application.

Why It Matters

It is imposible to control costs and build healthy supplier arrangements without true visibility where it really matters … the actual cost of the travel. Pre-Covid, the business travel supply chain was riddled with pricing anomalies and mark-ups. The main problem was the practice of marking-up wholesale international airfares, ranging up to 30% and beyond. As we return to travelling for business, we have the opportunity to establish better practice.

Our History - The Big Kick-Off Case

Airocheck began as a consulting engagement in 2017 when our founder was engaged by a large company to advise on pricing in its travel supply chain. The engagement resulted in multi-million dollar compensation to the buyer from a key supplier. Airocheck then quickly grew and was soon appointed by the Federal Government to audit its travel arrangements, the largest travel program in the Southern hemisphere.

The Three Essential Ingredients

Three things are necessary to do this work. We have built proprietary HotDamn software that decodes essential settlement data making it accessible for use. We have the travel supply chain knowledge gained from 22 years of specialist procurement consulting. And we have the financial and analytical skills and resources to design watertight auditing processes and reporting.

Also, essentially, we are completely independent from all types of travel supplier. We don’t also work for them on the side.

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Founder

Airocheck Audit was founded by Tony O’Connor. He is also the Managing Director of the region’s leading independent travel management consultancy Butler Caroye, which has been assisting travel buyers since 1998. And he is the Australasian Director of the Global Business Travellers’ Association. The GBTA is the world’s largest travel buyers’ organisation.

We Serve Travel Buyers’ Interests Only

We are unique in that we serve the interests of travel buyers only. Because we are testing supplier practices, independence from suppliers is essential in avoiding conflicts of interest. We receive no income or any benefit from any supplier.

Warrants Attention

We do not suggest that the cost-increasing practices referred to are necessarily pervasive. But we do believe that they are common enough to warrant serious attention as a necessary part of good travel procurement.

For more information please contact audits@airocheck.com or +61 0409 944 911

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