Case studies

FCM helps a top client claim considerable amount on GST for air travel

Partnership with FCM delivers a high-performing travel program.

Find out how FCM Travel put their travel management skills to the test when helping a Fortune 500 company manage their travel throughout COVID-19.

Learn about how FCM Travel teamed up with Fortescue Metals Group to offer our mining travel services and make big travel moves in the mining industry.

What happens when a medical emergency hits while you’re stuck on an oil rig? Find out in the latest marine and offshore travel case study from FCM Travel.

COVID-19 completely changed corporate travel. Find out how FCM Travel helped bring our travellers home throughout the pandemic.

In 2018, Hurricane Florence formed. Find out how the team here at FCM Travel kept our travellers safe during a natural disaster.

Our client - a global pharmaceutical company - had a mature air programme through which it was spending more than $25m across more than a dozen countries. It wanted to find $400,000+ in incremental savings and achieved this, going from total air contract savings in Year 1 of $2,008,514 to $2,418,078 in Year 2 - an increase of 20.4%.

FCM had managed the travel programme for our client - a world leader in electronic optical equipment and analytical instrumentation for high-end scientific and industrial research and development - for more than a decade.

As a top 250 Australian company, in 2017 our client booked 7,234 room nights in 46 hotels across four countries worth $1.6. With compliance at 75%, coverage was 74%. A year later, its program had found savings of 4-8% with room nights increased to 7,750 in 82 hotels.

With 359 hotels in 28 countries booking 61,000 hotel rooms worth $13.6m, our client’s current program had compliance of 80% and coverage of 93%. Working together savings of 4.5% were found in our new program with a rise in the number of hotels to 402 and compliance increasing to 89%.

Our client is an Infrastructure Services Business who in 2017 booked 68,500 room nights worth $11.1m in 110 hotels across two countries, with compliance at 70%. A year later this increased to 80% with significant total savings across in 2018 of $912k.