Travelport is seeking an injunction and damages against American Airlines, alleging that a 10% Kayak discount off American Airlines' fares violates Travelport's global distribution system full-content agreements with the airline.... Read More

HomeAway reportedly is shopping for bankers as a prelude to testing the IPO market.... Read More

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European online travel agency Opodo has finally been sold by Amadeus today in a deal worth Euro 450 million to AXA Private Equity and Permira Funds.... Read More

Extended Stay Hotels found that its wired T1 lines weren't up to speed for its high-speed Internet access needs so it opted to deploy fixed-wireless data connections from Airband Communications at many of the chains properties.... Read More

Abacus International, the Asia GDS owned by Sabre and a consortium of airlines, believes Asia is poised to become dominant in the global travel industry.... Read More

Expedia's Facebook fans can now choose among the top 10 finalists in a contest to come up with a new name for Expedia's Vacation Packages.... Read More

FairSearch, the coalition opposed to Google's acquisition of ITA Software, questions whether Google's treatment of Kayak amounts to retribution against a competitor which has questioned Google's market power.... Read More

Until now, only a limited number of advertisers could show hotel pricing and availability in Google Maps, but now Google is expanding its pay-for-click hotel price advertising program.... Read More

UK travel agents hooked up to the Travelport global distribution system can now download a software application to book British Airways' pre-paid seats.... Read More

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Orbitz Worldwide, which was ITA Software's first customer, renewed an agreement to use ITA's airfare search product on Orbitz.com and sister site CheapTickets.com through 2015.... Read More

Major hotel chains as well as the American Hotel & Lodging Association have lined up to oppose the latest effort by online travel agencies to get legislation passed in Florida that would prohibit efforts to tax them on retail hotel rates.... Read More

Air transport tech firm SITA has inked a deal with crowd management system provider Bluelon to license its iQueue system for tackling passenger congestion at airports.... Read More

Hotel CRS vendor Trust International entered into a Google program to resell Google AdWords to hotel customers and get their properties displayed in Google Maps and Google Places.... Read More