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MassiveGood spends $11M, attracts $200,000 in donations so far

By Kevin May | December 1, 2010

MassiveGood, a global fundraising campaign backed by a string of travel companies and celebrities, has raised less than a quarter of a million dollars in six months. Read More

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Buying air tickets was always tricky and is still a mess - is change coming?

By Viewpoints | November 23, 2010

Twenty years ago I used to run the largest air consolidator business in Scandinavia. We had a single aim: to have the best and the most fares you could find. Read More

Travelport wins restraining order against American Airlines withdrawal from Orbitz

By Dennis Schaal | November 19, 2010

A judge in Chicago today temporarily blocked American Airlines from terminating its contracts with Orbitz Worldwide Dec. 1. Read More

Clarke: Travelport watching Kayak, General Motors IPO efforts

By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2010

Travelport is keeping its options open about going public and is gauging its prospects as it observes how General Motors, Kayak and private equity-held companies are faring in their IPO efforts, an... Read More

American Airlines: Travelport using intimidation tactics

By Dennis Schaal | November 10, 2010

American Airlines and Travelport -- already facing off in courtrooms in Chicago and Fort Worth, Texas -- traded charges today about who pays for flight and optional services access if travel agents hook... Read More

Travelport Q3 2010 results - bitesize summary

By Kevin May | November 10, 2010

Travelport released its Q3 2010 results this afternoon. A quick overview is as follows: Read More

GDS Bitesize - service news, agreements, products from Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre

By PhocusWire | November 6, 2010

The latest news from the GDS world, including new airline agreements, product news and initiatives. Latest: Travelport connect anger/Southwest. Read More

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Orbitz pushes program for travel agents

By Dennis Schaal | November 5, 2010

Orbitz is making a renewed push to get travel agents to sign up for its Orbitz for Agents program. Read More

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Travelport blasts inefficiencies of American Airlines direct connect

By Dennis Schaal | November 3, 2010

Travelport and American Airlines are battling for travel agents' hearts, minds and pocketbooks. Read More

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Travelport in major reorganisation of commercial divisions

By Kevin May | October 28, 2010

Significant moves at Travelport this week with a wholesale restructuring of its GDS and airline IT departments across multiple territories. Read More

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Google-ITA Software deal: Who is missing from the FairSearch plot?

By Kevin May | October 27, 2010

Those behind the FairSearch anti-Google movement will clearly have been delighted with the acres of coverage the launch received yesterday. Read More

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After nuclear-led Cold War comes travel distribution detente

By Siew Hoon Yeoh | September 23, 2010

At this time of the year in Beijing, as summer gives way to autumn and the Chinese offer mooncakes to the Lady of the Moon, there’s a change in the direction of the wind that blows through the city. Read More

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Travelport adds sponsored flights into GDS displays

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | September 20, 2010

If the coalition of anti-fee forces were upset about ancillary services affecting GDS displays, what will they think of the new Travelport sponsored availability displays? Read More

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Future of travel reservation systems is CRM - but not as we know it

By Alex Bainbridge | September 20, 2010

For those of us who work in the travel reservation system software world we tend to be optimising and commoditising ideas that were first mooted in the late 1990s. Read More