The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that nine air carriers received fiscal year (FY) 2025 contracts for scheduled airline passenger transportation of federal government travelers through the GSA’s City Pair Program. Overall, the program is estimated to save $2.45 billion in FY25 on official travel expenses.
Breeze Airways will join Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines in offering federal travelers options for official government air travel. The new fares will be available on GSA’s City Pair Program web page starting July 17, 2024 for travel beginning October 1, 2024.
“The City Pair Program is one of our offerings designed to make it easier for federal travelers to book airfares and plan trips with confidence,” said Acting Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Tom Howder. “For the first time in several years, we are increasing the number of airlines participating in the program, which means we’re opening new markets and creating more competition.”
The FY25 GSA City Pair contracts reflect a 26% increase in nonstop flight options, which helps to lower CO2 emissions. In addition, contract fares provide an average discount of 49.5% compared to commercial fares.
“This year the City Pair Program is offering many more nonstop flights, reducing carbon emissions and optimizing traveler convenience — which will result in increased customer satisfaction,” said Travel, Transportation and Logistics Assistant Commissioner Crystal Philcox.
The city-to-city routes were solicited based on factors such as past travel bookings, passenger volume, number of flights, flight availability, average elapsed flight time, and price of service.
City Pair fares have no cancellation or change fees, no blackout dates, no minimum or maximum length of travel requirements, are fully refundable, and offer last-seat availability.
Launched with 11 markets in 1980, the City Pair Program now serves over 14,000 line-item markets for federal air travel and has been a Best-In-Class solution since 2017. As the largest strategically-sourced procurement for negotiated airfares in the world, GSA’s City Pair Program capitalizes on the scale of federal travelers to negotiate lower rates on flights between key cities.
