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British Airways and Amadeus close to signing new GDS agreement

By Kevin May | December 8, 2009

Information is beginning to leak out that travel technology provider and global GDS Amadeus and British Airways are ready to sign a new multi-year, full-content deal. The Madrid-based firm will be the... Read More

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Will Gordon Wilson be Travelport's next CEO?

By Dennis Schaal | November 11, 2009

I get paid, in part, to speculate, so here goes: First, the facts. The board of Travelport Ltd. named Gordon Wilson deputy CEO of the company, effective Nov. 5. Wilson, 43, who's been with the company... Read More

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JetBlue gets more corporate with high-yield GDS distribution

By Dennis Schaal | November 11, 2009

In the days of Web-only fares on airline websites in the U.S., traditional travel agents moaned that airlines were basically screwing themselves with this kind of supplier-direct discounting because the... Read More

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The push-pull of the Orbitz-Travelport relationship

By Dennis Schaal | November 6, 2009

Jeff Clarke, the chairman, president and CEO of Travelport and also the chairman of Orbitz Worldwide, was explaining why Travelport opted to invest $50 million in Orbitz. In a Travelport conference call... Read More

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Travelport to take massive writedown of GTA, but will invest in Orbitz

By Dennis Schaal | November 5, 2009

Travelport's predecessor company, Cendant, acquired Gullivers Travel Associates for $1.1 billion in April 2005. But Travelport says next week it intends to write-down its GTA businesses, including... Read More

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Travelport Agencia: More to come

By Dennis Schaal | October 21, 2009

Whenever a new tech product comes out, you always wonder whether it lives up to its promises. I wrote several months ago about the rollout of Travelport's Agencia desktop for Canadian travel agencies.... Read More

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Amadeus-Travelport flirt with merger, but now let's get serious

By Dennis Schaal | October 19, 2009

The Times reported that Amadeus and Travelport, which operate three of the four major global distribution systems, have abandoned merger talks and will pursue separate public offerings in Madrid and... Read More

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Sam Gilliland says HEY! Maybe add Sabre to that GDS public offering party

By Kevin May | October 18, 2009

There is clearly something in the air in GDSland, perhaps fuelled by the apparent green shoots of recovery appearing in the ground. Now it's the turn of Sabre to shed a small chink of light on its... Read More

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Winter capacity cuts will affect GDS revenues - or will they?

By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | October 14, 2009

It has become an interesting conundrum that the GDS market for airline segments has been seeing cuts that outpaced the capacity and traffic cuts from the airlines. Some of this is obvious but some is... Read More

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Tour operator 'blown away' by Sabre to Worldspan conversion, but...

By Dennis Schaal | October 12, 2009

Travelport and Apple Vacations, among the largest tour operators in North America, announced today that Apple Vacations had dumped Sabre and completed the conversion to Travelport's Worldspan, with all... Read More

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Tech boss says airline systems are close to breaking point

By Kevin May | October 9, 2009

Amadeus UK and Ireland boss Tim Russell didn't hold back when he said recently that the airline sector had a major problem on its hands because the fundamental technology on which it operates is old and... Read More

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Travelport to expand travel agent online review project

By Kevin May | October 9, 2009

It took a while, but the idea of using travel agents to write online reviews of hotels and destinations did finally catch on, and now seems like a bit of a no-brainer. So while a plethora of review... Read More

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Is $1bn a realistic figure for a Kayak IPO?

By Dennis Schaal | September 25, 2009

Suddenly, with the credit and stock markets thawing a bit, a slew of travel companies may be talking to investment bankers and testing the IPO waters. Consider that the Boston.com reported that Kayak is... Read More

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