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Ryanair attacks eDreams Odigeo, which fires back

By Sean O'Neil | October 28, 2014

Today there was yet a further sign that airlines feel they have a stronger hand in haggling with online travel agencies than they used to. Ryanair, the Irish airline, issued a statement echoing com Read More

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Hipmunk now powers Yahoo Travel; TimeshareAdvisor adds rentals; and more...

By PhocusWire | October 28, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel MARKETING in tourism and hospitality for October 2014. Tuesday 28 October 2014 Hipmunk to power white-label search for Yahoo Travel Read More

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Amadeus to launch merchandising system, plugging into existing hosting technology and NDC

By Kevin May | October 14, 2014

Amadeus is to make its biggest push yet into the world of airline merchandising, as part of a vision to unlock what it claims is at least $130 billion in revenues for carriers. The company says tap 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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For personalisation and direct sales, airlines must set ecommerce free

By Viewpoints | September 2, 2014

Direct sales are obviously a powerful way to build customer relationships and defend tight margins. And online is the key to growing direct sales. NB: This is an analysis by Boyan Manev, vice pr Read More

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Amadeus integrates UnionPay, Multicom virtual payment for Sunvil, and more...

By PhocusWire | August 29, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SYSTEMS in tourism and hospitality for August 2014. Friday 28 August: Amadeus integrates UnionPay into payment platform Amadeus Read More

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Crawling is the new API - a legal and technical rough guide for the travel industry

By Kevin May | August 6, 2014

For the past six years, we have been asking ourselves one fundamental question for our business. "How do we get data from the transport providers we want to integrate?" NB: This is an analysis by Ve Read More

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Signs continue to point north for airline ancillaries

By Linda Fox | July 17, 2014

Top airlines are reaping average revenue of more than $40 per passenger for ancillary services according to figures in the annual Airline Ancillary survey. The CarTrawler survey, compiled by IdeaWo Read More

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How might an online travel agency navigate airline card surcharges?

By Viewpoints | July 7, 2014

Card surcharges - nobody likes them, unless you’re the one making the money. Consumers are often frustrated when seemingly unnecessary card fees are piled onto purchases for items such as gig ticke Read More

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Why budget airlines SHOULD charge you to use the bathroom

By PhocusWire | July 3, 2014

SYSTEMS: Ryanair infamously scored a PR coup a few years back when it "announced" it would be charging passengers to go the lavatory on-board its flights. Whilst the media went on a usual Ryanair ra Read More

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What a difference six months makes - Ryanair digital rennaissance

By Kevin May | May 27, 2014

In isolation the moves by Ryanair might trigger a bit of shrug from industry watchers - but as a body of work the last six months have been nothing short of remarkable. Going back to the GDS (via T Read More

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Ryanair tripling marketing spend to push website and customer experience revamp

By Linda Fox | May 19, 2014

Ryanair says customer experience improvements and lowering of fares last September year helped improve traffic volumes in the second half of the year. The airline reported an 8% drop to Euro 523 mi Read More

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The real story when Ryanair tweaked its back-end and got bitten in search

By Viewpoints | April 23, 2014

Last week a Guardian article covered Ryanair dropping out of the top 100 results in Google for search terms related to European flight destinations. NB: This is an analysis by Martin MacDonald, an Read More

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Indian agents get SmartPoint, Sabre and SeatGuru, and more systems news

By PhocusWire | April 21, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SYSTEMS in tourism and hospitality for April 2014. Monday 21 April 2014: Travelport gives Indian agents SmartPoint tools The ag Read More

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