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Corporate Traveller
SME travel management from Flight Centre, combining the Melon booking platform with a named consultant
As of 1 September 2026, Corporate Traveller's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. The Flight Centre SME division, selling a managed travel service in which the Melon self-booking platform is bundled with a dedicated human consultant. Softwr lists it under Travel. Corporate Traveller is made by Flight Centre Travel Group, available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Corporate Traveller does
Corporate Traveller is a travel management company aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. Its proprietary platform, Melon, handles booking, policy enforcement, approvals, reporting and traveller tracking, and it is backed by a named travel consultant who handles complex itineraries, changes out of hours and supplier disputes. Content includes Flight Centre group negotiated fares alongside GDS and direct airline inventory. The distinguishing feature is deliberate: unlike TravelPerk or Navan, which sell software first and support second, Corporate Traveller sells a consultant relationship with software attached. For an SME with fifty travellers and no travel manager, that consultant is effectively an outsourced travel department, and group buying power gives access to fares an SME would never negotiate alone. It also means the economics are agency economics: transaction fees plus supplier commissions and overrides that the client does not see. Buyers are companies spending roughly a few hundred thousand to a few million a year on travel with no in-house travel function. The trade-off is that you are dependent on the attention of one consultant and on an agency whose incentives are partly aligned with suppliers rather than only with you.
What people use it for
- A fifty-person firm with no travel manager that needs someone to fix a stranded traveller at 2am
- An SME wanting airline and hotel rates it could not negotiate on its own volume
- A business whose arrangers book for executives and want option sets proposed rather than searched
- A company introducing a travel policy for the first time and needing it enforced at booking
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Where it falls short
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- Service quality depends heavily on the individual consultant assigned, and a consultant leaving is a real disruption because the relationship rather than the software carries the institutional knowledge.
- Agency revenue includes supplier commissions and overrides that are not disclosed to the client, so the cheapest option for you and the most profitable option for the agency are not always the same booking.
- Melon is competent but narrower than TravelPerk or Navan on self-service features, and companies that genuinely want no human involvement will resent paying for one.
- Consultant-assisted bookings carry meaningfully higher fees than online ones, and the fee mix is where an apparently cheap contract turns expensive.
- It operates through separate country entities with different content, contracts and service hours, so a multi-country roll-out is several negotiations rather than one.
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- Corporate TravellervsNavan
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- Corporate TravellervsEgencia
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Pricing
What Corporate Traveller costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Corporate Traveller
On request
- Transaction fees per online and per consultant-assisted booking
- Melon platform typically bundled with the service
- Supplier commissions and overrides retained by the agency
- Terms vary by country operating entity
Capabilities
Features
Melon booking platform
Self-booking for air, hotel, car and rail with policy rules and approval flows
Dedicated consultant
A named account contact plus 24/7 emergency assistance for in-trip disruption
Trip Proposals
Consultant-built option sets sent to travellers or arrangers for selection
Negotiated fare access
Flight Centre group air and hotel rates layered over public content
Spend reporting
Dashboards on spend by department, supplier, route and policy compliance
Traveller tracking
Location reporting and messaging for duty of care obligations
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Questions people ask
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Can I buy Melon without the consultant service?
No. Melon is sold as part of the managed Corporate Traveller service, not as standalone software.
Who owns it?
Flight Centre Travel Group, listed in Australia. Corporate Traveller is its SME brand, distinct from FCM which serves large enterprises.
Does it disclose supplier commissions?
Not by default. If commission transparency matters, ask for it explicitly in the contract before signing.
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