Air Transat signs an agreement with CarTrawler for more car rental options

Montreal, August 23, 2012

Air Transat announces its new partnership with CarTrawler, an international company specializing in car rental solutions. This agreement will give Canadian travellers access to a wider range of rental cars in all destinations served by the company. Prices are competitive, and rentals can easily be booked online at airtransat.ca.

“CarTrawler is proud to now include Air Transat as a valued partner. We look forward to providing their 3 million passengers with the most comprehensive choice of car rental brands, prices and availability wherever they require it across the Air Transat global network,” added Joe Farinella, CarTrawler Marketing Manager.

“Our partnership with CarTrawler is yet another way to better serve clients when it comes to vacation add-ons. Today’s announcement shows that we are enhancing our services to meet the needs of our clients,” states Joseph Adamo, Vice President, Marketing, Transat Canada.

Thanks to this partnership, users of airtransat.ca can now choose among 550 suppliers worldwide under the ‘cars/trains’ tab and book their rentals online.

About CarTrawler

CarTrawler connect some of the world’s largest airlines, online travel agents and hotel groups with over 800 car rental agents at 30,000 locations in 174 different countries. That’s more cars in more cities than you will find anywhere else. CarTrawler completes over 10 million car rental searches every day in over 30 languages and 50 currencies to ensure that our partner’s customers are offered car rental options that meet their needs and their budget every time, everywhere.

About Air Transat

Air Transat is Canada’s leading holiday travel airline. Every year, it carries some 3 million passengers to nearly 60 destinations in 25 countries aboard its fleet of Airbus wide-body jets. The company employs approximately 2,000 people. Air Transat is a business unit of Transat A.T. Inc., an integrated international tour operator with more than 60 destination countries and that distributes products in over 50 countries.