Since 1.7.23, international agencies are supported by the newly founded consolidator Global Ticket Factory. The service team of 20 people, under the management of Tim Howe Schröder and Wolfgang Lehr, is based in Berlin and provides services to agencies all over the world. 

Also in July 2023 AERTiCKET Suisse started a strategic partnership with Hotelplan Suisse, the largest Swiss tour operator, which now uses Cockpit to offer its 82 agencies the full AERTiCKET content as well as better conditions and many new functionalities.

AERTiCKET Suisse is founded at the end of the year. The Zurich-based consolidator pursues two goals. Swiss travel agencies and tour operators are to be provided with the best flight content. And with Cockpit Travel Services, a new offer for land services and tour operator services will also be created.

"From 2018, we considered ourselves to be mainly a technology company," said founder, managing director and shareholder Rainer Klee, describing the company's goal. The airline ticket wholesale business model had already been under constant adaptation pressure for years, which had become sensitive since the end of the standard commission from airlines. The Berlin-based company is dealing with this creatively, developing its own new reservation system - the booking world Cockpit. And reinvents itself.

Ethnic Travel has been an important business area for AERTiCKET for years, as shown by our company's participations in the consolidators "Das Ticket Team" and "airtuerk". An entry into the US consolidator market arose in 2008, because the head and founder of Picasso Travel, Huseyin Ozyurtcu, was looking for a successor for reasons of age.

he alternative idea turned into a business and a personal success: Within a few years, Titanic Reisen developed into an alternative travel agency chain with several branches in the Berlin metropolitan area. 

In 1993, the consolidator AER Reiseservice was founded and Titanic Reisen handed over the consolidator business, including the first three employees, to the new company. Under the management of Rainer Klee, AER went on the road to success: after just one year, contracts were signed with around 30 airlines and AER e.V. joined the GmbH as the main shareholder. Very high growth rates led to better and better contract conditions and the turnover grew within two years to 40 million DM in 1995.
 

Three years after its foundation, Titanic Reisen became a professional wholesaler of airline tickets and a member of the AER e.V. The combined purchasing power made it possible to get cheaper tickets and better contract conditions. The principle of mutual support was the focus, and the company saw itself as a purchasing cooperation.

Today's AERTiCKET group started in 1988 in West Berlin. The alternative scene in Kreuzberg in the 80s was creative and innovative. Some activists had gained so much experience in booking flights while organizing political journeys to Nicaragua that they spontaneously started their own travel agency - with the paradoxical name "Titanic Reisen". Being autonomous and independent was important. Titanic Reisen had its own IATA number right from the start, and neighboring travel agency friends therefore ordered their tickets through them. This purchasing cooperative was the beginning of the air ticket trade.