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Posted Dec 9, 2011
Chapter 11 evidently won't inhibit American Airlines' direct-connect efforts. It also shouldn't disrupt its legal wrangling with Sabre, according to documents the global distribution provider filed this week with the bankruptcy court.
Posted Dec 2, 2011
December 1, 2011 Dear Sabre:
We read with interest the November 29 article in The Beat where [Sabre Travel Network president] Greg Webb stated, "Corporations and agencies have told me it's a must-have to be able to display all content from all carriers flying a certain route in an easily understandable way." He continued, "I can't show Air Canada one way, WestJet another way and United a third way because it becomes an unusable user experience."
With all due respect, if it was ever true that it was an unusable user experience it is certainly no longer the case.
Posted Nov 30, 2011
It’s no secret that I am often quite critical of the general state of GDS innovation--specifically, the lack of it. And, not surprisingly, believe I am correct in that general assessment. However, when I see something that stands out from the crowd, it's worth sending out kudos, and the mobile team at Sabre deserves one.
Posted Nov 22, 2011
Since we hit the send button today on a story in The Beat about a judge dismissing a few of American Airlines' antitrust claims against Travelport, the carrier revised the first statement it issued, co-defendant Sabre shared its take on the ruling and Orbitz announced that motions AA filed against the company have been dismissed.
Posted Sept 7, 2011
American Airlines on Wednesday amended its antitrust complaint against Sabre to include a new claim: that the global distribution provider "organized an unlawful group boycott against American."
Posted Jul 29, 2011
A Texas district court this week denied Travelport's request to dismiss American Airlines' antitrust suit, which since its original filing has grown to also include Sabre as a defendant. Though it will proceed, the suit won't move as quickly as AA would like, as the judge also denied the carrier's request to expedite proceedings.
Posted Jun 24, 2011
I am now going to shift gears away from online technology and the role that they play in the travel distribution ecosystem to a topic that I have been personally intrigued with since I wrote my first book on Global Distribution Systems in 1999. That topic is GDS marketshare.
As background: Last week, I wrote a blog post that made an erroneous statement about Travelport being the biggest in the US. Rival Sabre quickly corrected me, but would not provide me with statistics to prove their claim. Notice I say "would not," not "could not."
Sabre will be happy to know that I have since corrected that article after verifying the information with Travelport, but decided to write a new blog today on the GDS share topic to augment the correction.
Posted Jun 22, 2011
Continental extended to 2013 from 2011 the expiration of its Sabre global distribution agreement to coincide with merger partner United, a spokesperson confirmed.
With that, we've updated the Deadline Watch chart to the best of our knowledge. For Continental’s Amadeus deal, the United spokesperson asked us to replace the previous (and definite) 2011 expiration date in the chart with a very indefinite "ND." The companies wouldn’t elaborate on what's up there. The expiration of both Continental's and United's agreements with Travelport, meanwhile, coincide in 2013. Care to fill in any of the blanks in the chart? Drop me a line.
Posted May 31, 2011
There are many ways to solve this problem, but a reckless game of chicken is not one of them.
A game of chicken can have but three outcomes:
1. The GDS flinches 2. The Airline flinches 3. They crash
Posted May 25, 2011
A legal ceasefire between American Airlines and Sabre expires next week, and it doesn't seem like much progress has been made on that new agreement they have been working on since agreeing to delay litigation in January.
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