Travelport is obviously celebrating what it calls "a huge win" after securing exclusive rights to connect Thomas Cook to airline data via the Galileo GDS.
Not mentioned in the announcement - Thomas Cook/Travelport eager to keep some sense of harmony, no doubt - is that the deal also sees the end of a relationship between the company and Amadeus.
Until today, Thomas Cook agents in the UK have used both Galileo and Amadeus for air data - a classic multi-GDS approach which will be phased out in the coming weeks and months as a result of the deal.
Thomas Cook will not comment when asked why it has decided to throw its lot - including tour operating brand Gold Medal Travel and Netflights - in with one GDS supplier.
Travelport says the partnership may extend outside of the UK if discussions prove successful.
Although the deal looks to be very straightforward, albeit a large one to have pitched and negotiated, perhaps the move signifies a wider rethinking by large retailers (off and online) about their GDS provision?
"Perhaps Thomas Cook's decision was a commercial one," a source familiar with the deal says.
The argument for having a multi-GDS strategy used to rest on as providing as much data (fares, availability) as possible across a range of airlines in order to satisfy the search queries of the end-user.
But if each GDS has the same airline agreements (in terms of content) as its competitor then the existing strategy may well be seen in different light - or, in other words, pointless.