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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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Sabre restructures business units, forms hospitality division with mobile offerings

By Dennis Schaal | December 2, 2009

Privately held Sabre Holdings -- heretofore organized into Sabre Travel Network, Travelocity and Sabre Airline Solutions -- introduced a new business division, Sabre Hospitality Solutions, over the... Read More

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JetBlue gets more corporate with high-yield GDS distribution

By Dennis Schaal | November 11, 2009

In the days of Web-only fares on airline websites in the U.S., traditional travel agents moaned that airlines were basically screwing themselves with this kind of supplier-direct discounting because the... Read More

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Google, Sabre see mobile ads as a moveable feast

By Dennis Schaal | November 10, 2009

Google's move to acquire AdMob, which serves targeted advertising on mobile devices, coupled with a new Sabre survey on mobile services, punctuate the direction of travel advertising. It's standard... Read More

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JetBlue could charge bag fee once Sabre's on-board

By Dennis Schaal | October 26, 2009

Southwest Airlines makes much out of its Bags Fly Free campaign, but JetBlue, which doesn't charge for the first bag, is relatively silent on the topic. One reason for JetBlue's lack of marketing about... Read More

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U.S. DOJ dials up Air Canada in Sabre-Farelogix probe

By Dennis Schaal | October 21, 2009

The U.S. Dept. of Justice inquiry into Sabre's termination of its developer's agreement with Farelogix in March and allegations of anti-competitive practices has headed into Canada. Graham Wareham,... 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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Farelogix to Sabre: What free ride?

By Dennis Schaal | October 14, 2009

As the U.S. Dept. of Justice apparently continues to contact customers of Farelogix and Sabre, Farelogix President and CEO Jim Davidson rejected Sabre's allegation that their developer's agreement,... 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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Tour operator 'blown away' by Sabre to Worldspan conversion, but...

By Dennis Schaal | October 12, 2009

Travelport and Apple Vacations, among the largest tour operators in North America, announced today that Apple Vacations had dumped Sabre and completed the conversion to Travelport's Worldspan, with all... Read More

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ITA Software powers air-shopping on Southwest Airlines website

By Dennis Schaal | October 8, 2009

This just in: ITA Software picked up another airline customer for its QPX airfare pricing and shopping system: Southwest Airlines. The press release hasn't dropped yet, but the functionality is now live... Read More

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