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Travelport credits Asia-Pacific for early-2017 financial gains

By Kevin May | May 9, 2017

Travelport has hailed a "positive start" to the year with a 7% increase in revenue across the business for the first three months of 2017. The company hit $651 million in revenue in Q1, up from $60 Read More

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Travelsky financials show stronger growth in 2016 than western peers

By Martin Cowen | April 21, 2017

Travelsky's 2016 annual report highlights the scale of the business and the range of services it is currently offering to China's airlines, airports and agents, with a hint that it might be looking at Read More

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Ukrainian Airlines slams on fees for every booking channel, but website is cheapest

By Kevin May | April 21, 2017

Ukrainian International Airlines is to impose a $9 surcharge on every booking made through the world's Global Distribution Systems. The fee on each segment made on tickets bought via Amadeus, Trave Read More

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ITQ investors getting close to $200 million exit

By Martin Cowen | March 7, 2017

InterGlobe Technology Quotient's (ITQ) CEO Anil Parashar has confirmed that talks are under way for a chunk of the Indian travel tech business to change hands for an estimated $200 million. ITQ is Read More

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Sabre's CFO bangs the drum for the joined-up PSS/GDS

By Martin Cowen | March 3, 2017

Sabre's CFO Rick Simonson has outlined the importance of using insights from its passenger reservation and airline IT products to help airlines sell via the direct and indirect channel. Speaking at Read More

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Infrastructure, ancillaries and hybrids - three takeaways from CAPA India

By Viewpoints | February 27, 2017

The CAPA India Aviation Summit 2017 took place recently at the Leela Hotel Mumbai and was a great opportunity to network with key industry stakeholders - senior executives and CEOs from airlines, corp Read More

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Latest graduates of Travelport Labs Accelerator take to the stage for Demo Day

By Sponsored Content | February 23, 2017

The Colorado startup community crowded into an upscale facility in downtown Denver this month, excited to witness four innovative startups make their final product pitches during the culminating Demo Read More

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Travelport says headwinds behind it as it reports best results in five years

By Linda Fox | February 21, 2017

Travelport has turned in its best results in five years as it reports its financial results for Q4 and full-year 2016. Highlights for the year from the distribution giant include a 64% net revenue Read More

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Carlson Wagonlit launches 3.0, a tech-led reinvention of corporate travel

By Kevin May | February 1, 2017

Carlson Wagonlit is going all out in a bid to reposition itself as a digital travel management company - labelling the initiative as "CWT 3.0". The move to overhaul its brand proposition, structure Read More

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Jury sides with US Airways against Sabre in GDS antitrust trial of the century

By Sean O'Neil | December 20, 2016

The jury has returned its verdict in US Airways's $134 million antitrust lawsuit against travel technology giant Sabre. The airline, obelow owned by American Airlines Group, persuaded a jury in a U Read More

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Pressure on China to open up air distribution to foreign systems

By Kevin May | December 2, 2016

The US secretary of commerce has called on China to reconsider its position on the ban on overseas Global Distribution Systems from operating in the country. Penny Pritzker, in what is likely to be Read More

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Are GDSs fit for purpose? A checklist

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | November 24, 2016

In recent months we have seen several airlines ratchet up their rhetoric against the global distribution systems (GDSs), namely, Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport, and Travelsky. In particular some airlin Read More

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ATPCO incoming CEO pledges important role in future of airline distribution

By Kevin May | November 15, 2016

In an industry full of insidery type organsations and protocols, ATPCO is one of the most important but rarely discussed elements in the food chain. The Airline Tariff Publishing Company has its ro Read More

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Travelport predicts an automated and hi-tech future for travel agencies

By Kevin May | November 3, 2016

Travelport says travel agencies have a future - but one that is likely to see them operate in a vastly different way to how they do now. The comments from the company's president and CEO, Gordon Wi Read More

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Running the gamut of innovation, corporate travel style

By Linda Fox | November 3, 2016

With a sector so full of policies and process, it's hard to imagine innovation and corporate travel in the same sentence. But, travel executives from the corporate world were recently forced to rea Read More

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