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Amadeus in-sources customer tech support, Sabre lands LAN

By Dennis Schaal | January 5, 2010

So much for outsourcing. Using in-house staff, Amadeus opened customer service centers in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Buenos, Argentina, to support travel agencies in 39 countries in the Americas.... Read More

Travel Executive Crystal Balls Part 4: Ignacio Martos, Tim Russell and Bob Atkinson

By Kevin May | December 31, 2009

To coincide with the mammoth Tnooz Predictions 2010 article, Tnooz asked people around the industry to gaze into their own crystal balls to forecast some of the key developments for the next 12 months.... Read More

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Confirmed - Amadeus and British Airways sign full-content agreement

By Kevin May | December 21, 2009

As revealed on Tnooz two weeks ago - although heavily denied at the time - British Airways and Amadeus have reached agreement to extend their distribution deal until 2013. Press released today, Amadeus... Read More

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Travel technology, climate change and apathy - not a pleasant mix

By Valyn Perini | December 8, 2009

Amadeus recently announced a partnership with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to provide the GDS’s customers information about their air travel carbon emissions. Given the negative... Read More

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British Airways and Amadeus close to signing new GDS agreement

By Kevin May | December 8, 2009

Information is beginning to leak out that travel technology provider and global GDS Amadeus and British Airways are ready to sign a new multi-year, full-content deal. The Madrid-based firm will be the... Read More

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Databanks at dawn: The curious case of STA Travel, Sabre and Amadeus

By Kevin May | December 8, 2009

Travel technology beasts Sabre and Amadeus are at the centre of rather bizarre war of words - except one is gagged from saying anything. Two weeks ago Amadeus issued a press release to say it had won a... Read More

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BlueSky who? Amadeus signs tour operator marketing pact with Fourth Dimension Software

By Dennis Schaal | December 1, 2009

Amadeus and Fourth Dimension Software integrated some of their tour operator offerings and entered into a co-marketing pact that could give FDS a larger footprint in Europe and fill in some technology... Read More

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Amadeus Affinity Shopper may well spearhead the change but others are trying already

By Kevin May | November 19, 2009

The Affinity Shopper project by Amadeus IT Group won the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit top prize after beating off competition in the final round from Translations.com, Gliider and EveryTrail.... Read More

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Amadeus and Traveltainment planning to inspire travel technology

By Kevin May | November 16, 2009

GDS and travel technology supplier Amadeus is to place a major emphasis on providing inspirational tools and intuitive user experience for inclusion in third party websites. Two projects have been... Read More

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Amadeus warns off scraping iPhone app maker, reveals launch of own service

By Kevin May | November 13, 2009

Travel technology beast Amadeus is developing its own consumer flight concierge app for the Apple iPhone after cracking down on an individual app developer who used the company's data to build his own.... Read More

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In calculating move, Amadeus to integrate carbon data

By Dennis Schaal | November 2, 2009

Amadeus, the airline IT and GDS vendor, plans to integrate data from the International Civil Aviation Organization's carbon calculator in all of Amadeus' reservations platforms my mid-2010. In the... Read More

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Amadeus-Travelport flirt with merger, but now let's get serious

By Dennis Schaal | October 19, 2009

The Times reported that Amadeus and Travelport, which operate three of the four major global distribution systems, have abandoned merger talks and will pursue separate public offerings in Madrid and... Read More

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Sabre pushes cubeless, but CEO opts for a cube

By Dennis Schaal | October 18, 2009

Sabre has been marketing cubeless, a social networking platform and knowledge base, to corporations inside and outside the travel industry, but now, it turns out, chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland has... Read More

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Sam Gilliland says HEY! Maybe add Sabre to that GDS public offering party

By Kevin May | October 18, 2009

There is clearly something in the air in GDSland, perhaps fuelled by the apparent green shoots of recovery appearing in the ground. Now it's the turn of Sabre to shed a small chink of light on its... Read More

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Winter capacity cuts will affect GDS revenues - or will they?

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | October 14, 2009

It has become an interesting conundrum that the GDS market for airline segments has been seeing cuts that outpaced the capacity and traffic cuts from the airlines. Some of this is obvious but some is... Read More

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