Jettova for Teams
An honest comparison
Three ways companies run team travel: a traditional corporate travel platform, the spreadsheet-and-group-chat status quo, or Jettova for Teams. Each wins somewhere, including rows where we lose, because a comparison you can't trust isn't worth pasting into the decision thread.
The short version: at enterprise volume with complex itineraries, a traditional platform earns its price. For the startup running offsites and a handful of trips a quarter, the criteria flip, and that's who we built for.
| Criterion | Jettova for Teams | Traditional TMC | Spreadsheet + chat | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deciding WHERE to meet (distributed team) | Fairness engine ranks cities by total cost and worst individual journey, checks the team's passports, free calculator | Starts after the destination is chosen | Whoever speaks first in the group chat | Jettova |
| Booking and invoicing | Managed inventory, each traveler picks a flight priced from their own airport, one company invoice | Managed inventory, one invoice, negotiated fares at volume | Fifteen personal cards and an expense-report shoebox | Depends on scale |
| Travel policy | Caps, cabin ceiling, and approvals BIND at booking time; over-cap pauses for sign-off before a cent moves | Policy engines exist, depth varies; often report-after rather than block-before | A wiki page nobody reads | Jettova |
| Traveler adoption required | None: organizer sets up, teammates pick a flight and add details once, no account per employee | Every employee onboarded to the platform | None (that's its one virtue) | Jettova |
| What the AI does | Agents that ACT: draft plans, recover cancellations, clear expenses, forecast budgets, re-shop booked fares, inside published limits (see the trust page) | Chat assistants that answer questions; autonomy claims without published governance | Someone pastes the itinerary into a chatbot | Jettova |
| Gives money back | Savings agent re-shops booked fares daily; swaps only when the airline's real refund terms clear a buffer | Rate audits at enterprise tiers | Nobody re-shops a booked ticket by hand | Jettova |
| Disruption support | Monitored bookings, like-for-like recovery within policy, human support desk for the rest | 24/7 phone agents, strongest for complex international itineraries | The stranded traveler calls the airline at 11pm | Traditional TMC |
| Negotiated corporate fares | No; published fares plus re-shopping (which wins below a few thousand flights a year) | Yes, and they matter at enterprise volume | No | Traditional TMC |
| Cost fit for a small team | Built for the quarterly-offsite company; free deciding tools, early-access product | Minimums and per-trip fees calibrated for enterprises | Free, paid for in organizer hours and booking chaos | Jettova |
| Audit trail and receipts | Every action, dollar, and escalation on the record, plus a weekly digest and per-event statements | Enterprise reporting suites | Screenshots | Depends on scale |
When you should pick a traditional platform instead
Thousands of flights a year where negotiated fares beat published ones. Complex multi-leg international executive itineraries. Heavy duty-of-care obligations in high-risk regions with genuine 24/7 phone support needs. If that's you, buy the enterprise tool; if it becomes you, we'll say so.
Start where it's free
Rank the fairest cities for your team with the calculator, estimate what the savings agent would bank, and read the rules our agents cannot break. Then decide.