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Posted Feb 20, 2010
Posted Feb 20, 2010
Posted Feb 19, 2010
Orbitz has launched a new platform for traditional travel agents which enables them to book stand-alone hotel rooms as well as vacation packages. This matches (for hotel only anyway) agentaccess, a program which hotels.com has offered to the agency community for some time.
Posted Dec 4, 2009
Posted Oct 3, 2009
At the FVW Kongress in Cologne last month, Amadeus offered a hint in a speech that they would be reconsidering the issue of the 4.90 euros fee that Lufthansa has been leveraging for segments booked on Amadeus for the PFP program.
Posted Sept 12, 2009
I have written a more than a few times on the changing face of the global distribution system products. Latest on the market is the new Amadeus One. Developed in the USA by the dev team based on the East Coast, the new tool is Amadeus' latest effort at cracking the US market--something that thus far has resisted the allures of the Franco-German-Hispano combine.
Posted Sept 8, 2009
Over the past few weeks, behind the scenes, a high stakes drama has been going on over the seemingly innocent issue of just one airline in a global distribution system. In this case the battle was over Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss Air Lines (LX)’s participation in Sabre. I am not going to comment on the actual nature of the dispute between the parties. That is for them to surface and share--far be it for me to address that issue.
Posted May 28, 2009
Posted Feb 12, 2009
Only those open to change will reap the rewards
by Michael Strauss
From a technological point of view, the travel industry is not the hunter, but the hunted. Innovations are neither fostered nor developed to the necessary extent. Suppliers, distributors, travel management companies, but also technology providers are partially to blame for this. However, new concepts can help the travel industry to reduce costs, master crises and offer better products.
Posted Feb 9, 2009
Today at 11am ET Chicke Fitzgerald welcomes Jake Fuller as her guest co-host on Solutionz Live! They will talk about the state of the travel industry and will be talking about the rivalries in the GDS and online travel space.
Listen live on www.blogtalkradio.com/solutionzlive or call in on 1-646-727-2840 to ask questions live on the air.
Or download after the broadcast is complete and listen at your convenience.
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