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Requesting Travel for Other Employees

Put several travellers on one request and use consultant assistance for group travel — there is no book-for-employee screen.

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There is no "book for employee" screen in the corporate portal. Everyone books their own approved travel, and the portal's Bookings page only ever shows the signed-in user's bookings. When you need to arrange travel for colleagues, you do it through the travel request itself.

Put Every Traveller on One Request

On the Travelers step of Requests > New Request, click Add Traveler for each additional person. Every traveller needs a Full Name and Email; phone and role are optional. ID and passport numbers are not asked for here: your consultant asks for them when a booking needs them. Everyone on the request travels under the same trip details, requirements, and estimated budget.

The request is still owned by you, the submitter: it follows your approval chain, appears in your requests list, and the resulting booking appears under your Bookings page — not under each traveller's account.

Use Consultant Assistance for Group Travel

On the Booking Method step, choose Consultant Assistance and describe the arrangement in Special Instructions for Consultant. This creates an entry in the consultant booking queue containing your trip details, requirements, estimated budget, and any documents you attached. A consultant claims it, which opens a chat thread you can use from your bookings list.

Important: The queue entry is built from the first traveller on the request — their name, email, and phone are what the consultant sees as the contact. Put the main traveller first, and list everyone else in the consultant notes so nobody is missed.

Self-Service Bookings Are Personal

The GDS Booking Portal works from the signed-in user's own approved GDS-portal request: it selects that request, pre-fills the search with its origin, destination, and dates, and measures the cart against its estimated budget. There is no employee picker and no profile pre-fill — traveller details are typed in at checkout. If a colleague must book for themselves, they need their own approved travel request.

Where the Booking Appears

Completed bookings show up under Bookings ("My Bookings") for the person who submitted the request, split into Consultant-Assisted and GDS Self-Service tabs. Travel documents are reached from Documents > Documents, so forward anything your fellow travellers need.