What Is Faith Travel?
Religious and spiritual travel and overseas missions, delivering compassion and aid to those in need around the world.
Key Travel Pioneered Missionary Fares!
We have been supporting faith-based organisations since 1980, when we pioneered the very first specialist missionary airfare. Our very first customer was a missionary from the Methodist church, so faith-based travel is in our DNA and we now work for organisations of all faith and denominations.
Our specialist agents have the skills to expertly address the sensitivities, destination requirements and routes involved. Our team creates hundreds of tailored trips every day using our exclusively negotiated specialist fares.
As your travel partner, our primary concern is to deliver great value for money and a seamless trouble–free service that ensures travel helps you achieve your objectives, rather than act as a barrier to progress. We do that through utilising our extensive knowledge and expertise in the faith sector.
Key benefits include:
- Discounts vs published fares
- Extended holding periods
- Fewer fare restrictions, such as Saturday night stay
- Low or no change or cancellation fees
- Fully refundable fares
- Extra luggage allowance
Catering for your funding requirements
As a faith-based organisation (FBO), you depend upon a wide variety of funding sources. Whether governmental or private, each has their own requirements for transparency, service level agreements, purchasing guidelines and travel policies.
With full policy integration, you can be sure donor and funding compliance regulations are met and through our award-winning booking and data technology platform 'KT-Online', we offer customised management reporting that can easily track spending to budget.
Travel Safety & Risk Management - Keeping Your Travellers Safe
Faith-based travel is not always predictable. Crises and unrest do not adhere to a calendar of events. Situations change fast and surprises happen. Our 24-hour emergency assistance service is there to meet these uncertainties.
Our specialist consultants are trained to provide active crisis support and fast reaction times. When your travellers may be facing the most risk or danger, and stress levels are at their highest, our consultants focus on finding and implementing the most appropriate solution.
Key Travel are leaders in Travel Risk Management, Traveller Tracking and Wellbeing toolsets and work in partnership with our customers to ensure they're meeting their duty of care responsibilities.
How else do we support faith travel?
Group Travel - when travelling as a Group (10+ people) did you know you may qualify for better terms than making individual travel arrangements? As a Key Travel customer, you have access to our Specialist Travel Team, who are experts in all areas of Group Travel - find out more
Travel Sustainability - It's important that we all work towards lowering emissions and we offer our customers full support in reducing their travel related carbon emissions - take a look
Frequently asked questions about faith travel
How is faith travel different from standard business travel?
Faith travel can involve very different requirements from a typical business trip. Travellers may be undertaking missionary work, volunteering, attending religious events, supporting communities or travelling as part of an organised group, often to destinations where travel can be more complex.
Faith-based organisations may also need to consider funding requirements, traveller safety, additional baggage, flexible travel dates and the possibility that plans may change at short notice.
Key Travel has specialised in faith travel since 1980, combining sector-specific fares with experienced travel consultants, travel risk support and technology designed to help organisations manage their travel programme.
What are missionary fares?
Missionary fares are specialist air fares designed for eligible travellers undertaking missionary or other qualifying faith-related travel.
Depending on the airline and fare, they can provide benefits that are particularly useful for faith travel, such as discounted fares, additional baggage allowance, extended ticketing periods, greater flexibility and reduced change or cancellation restrictions.
Key Travel pioneered specialist missionary airfares in 1980 and continues to work with airlines to provide specialist fare options for eligible faith-based travellers.
Who can use missionary and specialist faith air fares?
Eligibility for missionary and specialist faith fares depends on the airline, destination, purpose of travel and individual fare conditions. They may be available to eligible people travelling on behalf of faith-based organisations, including those undertaking missionary, community or humanitarian work.
Key Travel's specialist consultants can check the fares available for a particular journey and advise whether the traveller and trip meet the relevant eligibility requirements.
Are specialist faith fares always cheaper than standard air fares?
Not necessarily. A specialist faith fare may offer a lower ticket price, but its value can also come from benefits such as additional baggage, greater flexibility, longer ticketing periods or reduced change and cancellation costs.
For journeys where plans may change, these additional benefits can sometimes provide better overall value than choosing the lowest available public fare.
Key Travel compares the available options so organisations can consider both the ticket price and the conditions attached to the fare.
Can Key Travel arrange travel for missionary and faith groups?
Yes. Key Travel can support faith organisations arranging travel for groups as well as individual travellers. Group travel can involve different airline conditions, payment arrangements and booking requirements from individual travel.
For eligible groups, it may also be possible to access more flexible terms than would be available by making a series of separate individual bookings.
Key Travel's specialist Groups team can help plan flights, accommodation and other travel arrangements for mission trips, religious events, volunteering programmes and other organised faith travel. Find out more about our Groups service
How does Key Travel help faith organisations keep travellers safe?
Key Travel helps faith organisations manage traveller safety through travel risk management, traveller tracking, crisis support and 24-hour emergency assistance.
This can be particularly important when people are travelling to unfamiliar, remote or higher-risk destinations. If disruption or an emergency occurs, Key Travel's specialist consultants can help assess the travel impact and support travellers with their onward arrangements.
Travel programmes can also be designed around an organisation's own travel risk policies and duty-of-care requirements.
How can Key Travel help faith organisations manage travel budgets and funding requirements?
Key Travel can help faith organisations control travel spend through specialist fares, travel policy, online booking, management information and ongoing account management.
Travel policies can be incorporated into the booking process, while reporting can provide visibility of where and how travel budgets are being spent.
This can help organisations demonstrate greater control over travel expenditure and support internal, donor or funding-related reporting requirements.
Can faith organisations reduce the environmental impact of essential travel?
Yes. Where travel is necessary, faith organisations can use travel data, policy and booking choices to understand and reduce its environmental impact.
Key Travel can help organisations measure travel-related emissions, identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary travel and consider lower-carbon alternatives where practical, while recognising that international travel may remain essential to delivering their mission.
In addition, we offer carbon neutral hotel room nights at no cost to our customers.
A sustainable travel programme can therefore focus on travelling more thoughtfully rather than simply preventing necessary travel.