Amex, TRX Price For Midmkt.

American Express One and TRX Inc. recently announced new, low-cost technology-backed services to support the booking needs of midsize clients and midsize agencies, respectively.

At BTN's Corporate Travel World conference last month in New York, TRX launched Proxi, a new suite of services for middle market agencies and Airlines Reporting Corp.-certified Corporate Travel Departments. Atlanta-based TRX has yet to sign up new clients for the service, which executive vice president and general manager Steve Reynolds described as TRX's "first end-to-end electronic booking fulfillment and reporting service for agencies and CTDs." Proxi features online booking, quality control, reservation finishing, ticketing and ARC settlement with Web-enabled reporting, but TRX's agency clients still would provide customer service and handle telephone-based business. "Since the mega agencies charge in the neighborhood of $25 per transaction, we feel that the $6 price tag on Proxi makes it a very attractive offering," Reynolds said.

Meanwhile, American Express One last week launched RezExpress, a new low-cost remote telephone fulfillment service for clients with under $2 million in annual air spend that complements Amex One's Local Office call support and RezPort self bookings. Rion Needs, American Express One general manager, said RezExpress has been in soft launch since last October and more than 60 clients already are using the platform. RezExpress is priced at $15 per transaction. Needs said most Amex One clients implement a combination of the three services.