Partnership Overview
RateGain Travel Technologies Limited announced that Philippine Airlines (PAL), the Philippines' flag carrier, has selected AirGain, RateGain's new-generation AI-powered pricing intelligence solution, to modernize its pricing capabilities across its global network.
Solution Details
AirGain is an AI-powered SaaS solution that provides competitive pricing intelligence. Key features include:
- Tracks competitive fares across both direct and indirect channels
- Industry-first AI Digest that delivers daily automated route-level insights
- Detects pricing gaps and performance shifts
- Provides actionable intelligence in clear, structured format
- High-frequency rate shopping and round-the-clock support services
- Real-time visibility across 300+ airlines, 170+ OTAs, and 50+ meta-search platforms
- Enterprise-grade reliability with 99.95 percent uptime
- Single interface dashboard for fare movement insights and market shift detection
Strategic Benefits for Philippine Airlines
- Enables faster, data-driven pricing across PAL's network
- Helps increase profitability while maintaining consistent pricing across channels
- Supports quicker and more consistent pricing decisions
- Provides deeper insight into fare movements and early detection of market shifts
- Allows swift response to changing market conditions
- Supports PAL's competitive positioning across short-haul domestic routes and ultra long-haul transpacific services
Future Product Development
AirGain will soon introduce Smart Search, an industry-first natural-language capability in pricing intelligence. This feature will allow revenue managers to ask pricing questions directly and receive instant, contextual insights, moving beyond traditional monitoring tools toward an AI-powered decision assistant.
Management Commentary
Christoph Gaertner, Vice President for Revenue Management, Commercial Planning & Alliances at Philippine Airlines, stated: "RateGain gives our team better visibility into competitor pricing and market movements, helping us make more informed pricing decisions, stay competitive across our network, and respond quickly to changing market conditions."
Vinay Varma, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AirGain, added: "We are delighted to welcome Philippine Airlines to the AirGain community. As one of the newest airlines to join the oneworld Alliance, with an order book of modern new aircraft, PAL is scaling fast and competing for market share across the globe, which makes the ability to see and act on fare movements in real time a genuine advantage. AirGain's newly launched, AI-powered dashboard, backed by our dedicated support teams, gives PAL's revenue and pricing teams both the signals that matter and a partner to act on them with. We are confident this combination will help PAL become more profitable, distribute smarter, and react to market changes instantly as it reaches new heights across its global network."
Company Background
RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, working with 13,000+ customers and 700+ partners across 160+ countries. The company works with 33 of the Top 40 Hotel Chains, 4 of the Top 5 Airlines, 7 of the Top 10 Car Rental companies, and all leading DMOs, OTAs, and metasearch platforms, including 25 Global Fortune 500 companies.
Philippine Airlines is the Philippines' flag carrier and the country's only full-service network airline, founded in 1941. PAL operates scheduled nonstop flights from its hubs in Manila and Cebu to 29 destinations across the Philippines and 40 destinations in Asia, North America, Australia, and the Middle East.