Philippine Airlines has selected rategain travel to modernize its pricing capabilities across its global network using AirGain, an AI-powered pricing intelligence solution. The partnership aims to enhance the flag carrier's ability to track competitive fares across direct and indirect channels, enabling faster, data-driven pricing decisions to increase profitability in a competitive market.

Strategic Implementation

Under the collaboration, Philippine Airlines will leverage AirGain's industry-first AI Digest, which delivers daily automated route-level insights to detect pricing gaps and performance shifts. This tool provides revenue teams with actionable intelligence in a structured format, streamlining the process of identifying and responding to market signals. The system is supported by competitive intelligence data from over 300 airlines, 170 online travel agencies (OTAs), and 50 meta-search platforms, ensuring high-frequency rate shopping and enterprise-grade reliability with 99.95 percent uptime.

Operational Benefits

The integration allows the airline to monitor fare movements and detect market shifts early through a single dashboard interface. This real-time visibility is designed to support consistent pricing across short-haul domestic routes and ultra long-haul transpacific services. RateGain plans to introduce Smart Search, a natural-language capability allowing revenue managers to query pricing data directly, further transitioning the tool from a monitoring system to an AI-powered decision assistant.

Executive Commentary

Christoph Gaertner, Vice President for Revenue Management, Commercial Planning & Alliances at Philippine Airlines, stated that RateGain provides better visibility into competitor pricing, aiding informed decision-making and quick responses to market conditions. Vinay Varma, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AirGain, added that the solution gives PAL's teams the signals necessary to act on fare movements in real time, supporting the airline's goal to distribute smarter and react instantly as it scales globally.

rategain travel has confirmed that its promoters and persons acting in concert (PAC) have not created any encumbrance on equity shares during the financial year ended March 31, 2026. This disclosure ensures that the shareholding of the key stakeholders remains free from charges or pledges, other than those previously disclosed to the exchanges. The declaration was made in compliance with Regulation 31(4) and 31(5) of the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares & Takeover) Regulations, 2011.

The filing detailed the shareholding structure of the promoter group as of March 31, 2026. Bhanu Chopra led the group with 45,234,733 shares, representing 38.28% of the total share capital. The document noted that 45,102 equity shares purchased on March 30, 2026, were not yet reflected in the depository participant statement at the time of reporting.

Promoter Shareholding Details

The collective holding of the promoter group stood at 57,632,660 shares. The following table outlines the individual holdings within the promoter group:

45,102 equity shares were purchased on March 30, 2026; however, the same are not reflected in the DP statement.

The declaration was submitted to the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and BSE Limited on April 09, 2026. The confirmation was signed by Bhanu Chopra on behalf of the promoters and PAC of RateGain Travel Technologies Limited.