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United Airlines grapples with communications strategy with this weekend's reservations systems and website cutovers

By Dennis Schaal | March 1, 2012

This weekend will be a momentous one for the merged United and Continental airlines, HP and Travelport, but the airline's customers may not yet be fully aware of the extent of the changes and the... Read More

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GDS news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus - February 2012

By PhocusWire | February 23, 2012

Product news, releases, projects and more from the global distribution systems during Feburary 2012 - all here, in one easy read. Read More

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Amadeus fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results - at-a-glance summary

By PhocusWire | February 23, 2012

Amadeus released its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results today. A quick overview is as follows: Read More

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Web will never beat offline travel agents - impact is just a flesh wound

By Viewpoints | February 23, 2012

Readers of the New York Times Frugal Traveler column were treated to a walk down memory lane recently in a piece headlined: Is the Best Travel Search Engine Around the Corner? Read More

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Amadeus outage caused by technical failure during upgrades at Erding data centre

By Kevin May | February 16, 2012

Details have emerged as to the reason for a technical failure at Amadeus two weeks ago which affected the systems behind dozens of airlines. Read More

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Gullivers founder David Babai returns with group trip wholesaler G2 Travel

By Kevin May | February 6, 2012

Six years is a long time to be away from the travel industry, but GTA founder David Babai has decided to come back for another go despite making his fortune in 2005. Read More

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Travelport debuts ViewTrip mobile trip management tool in UK, global roll-out to follow

By Kevin May | February 6, 2012

Travelport is joining the mobile party this week, unveiling its own take on mobile travel management services with ViewTrip, an application for smartphones. Read More

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Travelport research shows agent confusion in airline ancillary market

By Linda Fox | February 1, 2012

Few agents currently view airline ancillaries as an opportunity to charge or increase fees according to a survey from Travelport Read More

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Amadeus outage hit other GDSs as airline systems crashed

By Kevin May | January 31, 2012

The extent of a significant technology failure at Amadeus yesterday is beginning to unravel, as other systems across the industry are now known to have been affected. Read More

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GDS news from Travelport, Amadeus, Sabre, Abacus - January 2012

By PhocusWire | January 31, 2012

Product news, releases, projects and more from the global distribution systems during January 2012 - all here, in one easy read. Read More

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Why the mechanics behind travel distribution will blow your mind

By Kevin May | January 18, 2012

Global distribution systems are crunching and processing travel data at astonishing scales and speed, but travellers would not have any sense of how it is done. Read More

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Booking.com and Expedia battle for travel agents in Rooms and More

By Dennis Schaal | January 18, 2012

Booking.com and Expedia do battle for hotel share around the globe, and they and about 10 other aggregators are upping the competition as they compete for travel agency bookings in the new Travelport... Read More

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Travelport: IPO still a consideration, admits mistakes made with introduction of Agility

By Kevin May | January 18, 2012

Travelport says a listing of the business on the public markets is still "an option for the future" although such a move is not a active part of its overall strategy. Read More

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Can a global distribution system be cool?

By Dennis Schaal | January 17, 2012

Officials at global distribution systems -- Travelport, Sabre and Amadeus -- rave about their turbo-charged zTPF mainframes as they still at times labor to introduce products that consumers long have... Read More