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Travelport to IPO at $16 a share, at high end of expected range

By Sean O'Neil | September 24, 2014

The US initial public offering of Travelport, the Atlanta, Georgia-based global distribution system (GDS), will be priced at $16 a share. That's at the highest end of the range it marketed 13 days ago Read More

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Ryanair/Amadeus: promo fares not on GDS; no US/China deal yet

By Martin Cowen | September 24, 2014

Amadeus' senior VP of distribution Holger Taubmann shared the stage with Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary at the FVW Congress in Cologne and talked over this morning's announcement that Ryanair fares wil Read More

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Ryanair signs distribution deal with Amadeus

By Martin Cowen | September 24, 2014

Amadeus has signed a deal with Ryanair and will sell the carrier's inventory through its global distribution network, the pair announced today. Tnooz broke the news at the start of the year that Ry Read More

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Concur, SAP, data and the pivoting of corporate travel

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | September 19, 2014

The rumoured bidding war is over - Germany-based SAP emerged as the victor in the battle to acquire Concur. The deal for the US expense management and corporate travel IT company was $8.3 billion, Read More

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Sabre plots hospitality growth - tuck-ins, geographic and customer expansion

By Linda Fox | September 15, 2014

Just days before Sabre announced its acquisition of Genares, chief executive Tom Klein was speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2014 Technology Conference. He will no doubt have had hospitality on the bra Read More

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Travelport aims to raise up to $480M with its IPO in US

By Sean O'Neil | September 11, 2014

The long-awaited US initial public offering of Travelport, the Atlanta, Georgia-based global distribution system (GDS) bought by private equity firm Blackstone Group, values the company at as much as Read More

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NDC hits US at last: United taps Amadeus's XML to sell ancillaries [UPDATED]

By Sean O'Neil | September 3, 2014

Today Amadeus said that United Airlines is the first carrier in North America to adopt a new way of connecting to the company's new XML-based ancillary sales service. It is the first global distrib Read More

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Thinking about targeting China? Big market, but not as easy as you might think

By Karthick Prabu | September 3, 2014

A who's who of global travel brands still face a number of challenges in the Chinese travel industry. At a panel discussion during the TravelDaily Summit in Shanghai, executives from Booking.com, S Read More

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Foreign GDS gear up for the much awaited opportunity in China

By Viewpoints | August 29, 2014

In the airline distribution segment in China, a lot of progress has been made with the support of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and IATA. Is the regulatory environment too listl Read More

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Refund.me Sabre Red, JuneYao in Abacus, Cleartrip signs Tigerair, and more

By PhocusWire | August 14, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for August 2014. Thursday 14 August 2014: refund.me launches its app in Sabre Red App Centr Read More

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Travelport looks beyond even Beyond Air, eNett possibly bigger than mothership some day

By Kevin May | August 5, 2014

Travelport has signalled one of the reasons it has upped its stake in eNett, the payment service joint venture of which it now owns 73%. Speaking following the release of its latest financial earni Read More

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Travelport buys into corporate travel platform Locomote

By Kevin May | August 3, 2014

Travelport's Beyond Air investment push continues - buying a 49% stake in Australia-based travel management platform Locomote. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Locomote is a three-and-a-hal Read More

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Travelport ups eNett stake, payment system valued at $450 million with eyes on other industries

By Kevin May | August 1, 2014

eNett is becoming a serious part of the Travelport portfolio, it seems - with it increasing its majority stake in a deal which will see the payment service worth around $450 million. Travelport has Read More

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Japan Airlines gets Amadeus Altea, DataArt automates Triometric, and more

By PhocusWire | July 30, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SYSTEMS in tourism and hospitality for July 2014. Thursday 31 July 2014: Japan Airlines to implement Amadeus Altea solution The Read More

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Air India on Travelport Merchandising Platform, Solomon Airlines and AirAsia select Amadeus solutions, and more

By PhocusWire | July 29, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for July 2014. Tuesday 29 July 2014: Travelport signs Air India to Rich Content and Brandin Read More

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