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Amadeus introduces fare-merchandising tool for travel agencies
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Amadeus introduces fare-merchandising tool for travel agencies
By Dennis Schaal | January 25, 2010
Amadeus introduced a tool which it hopes will help travel agencies, both online and offline, better merchandise airline fares. The intent of Amadeus Master Pricer Agent Fare Families is to enable travel... Read More
Are Tom Klein of Sabre and Gordon Wilson of Travelport birds of a feather?
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Are Tom Klein of Sabre and Gordon Wilson of Travelport birds of a feather?
By Dennis Schaal | January 21, 2010
Tom Klein - heir apparent? Sabre Holdings announced today that Klein, who had been executive vice president of Sabre's GDS and airlines solutions businesses, was appointed president of the company. In... Read More
Not Apple or Google, I'm A PC says Amadeus boss
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Not Apple or Google, I'm A PC says Amadeus boss
By Kevin May | January 14, 2010
Tim Russell, UK & Ireland managing director of travel technology and GDS supplier Amadeus, says his company is most similar to Microsoft than the arguably more glamorous Apple or Google. Tnooz thought... Read More
Amadeus CEO David Jones standing down... in 2011
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Amadeus CEO David Jones standing down... in 2011
By Kevin May | January 12, 2010
News emerging from Madrid, Spain, that current chief executive and president of Amadeus, David Jones, is to move aside in early-2011. Jones will be replaced in January next year current chief financial... Read More
Amadeus in-sources customer tech support, Sabre lands LAN
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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
Confirmed - Amadeus and British Airways sign full-content agreement
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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
Travel technology, climate change and apathy - not a pleasant mix
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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
British Airways and Amadeus close to signing new GDS agreement
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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
Databanks at dawn: The curious case of STA Travel, Sabre and Amadeus
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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
BlueSky who? Amadeus signs tour operator marketing pact with Fourth Dimension Software
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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
Amadeus Affinity Shopper may well spearhead the change but others are trying already
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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
Amadeus and Traveltainment planning to inspire travel technology
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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
Amadeus warns off scraping iPhone app maker, reveals launch of own service
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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
In calculating move, Amadeus to integrate carbon data
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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