According to American Airlines, meta-search sites Kayak and Sidestep "advised American Airlines that they will no longer display American's content effective Aug. 1, 2008. We are disappointed and hopeful that this issue can be resolved in the near future ... Our schedules and fares remain available through many other meta-search engines such as Mobissimo and Farecast" for purchase through aa.com.
Despite the director general of
IATA recently asserting that "It’s time for the GDSs come to the table with efficiency gains and cost savings," Amadeus commercial executive vice president David Jones earlier this month told us he's hopeful that the next major round of airline-GDS talks in the United States (due no later than 2011) will include greater recognition of "the value of the GDSs as distribution vehicles or as means to distribution through the travel agency chain." Some carriers, Jones said, have given him reason to believe.
