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Slowing Content Withdrawal, One Airline Tempers Distribution Plan. (Not That One.)

One New Distribution Capability-enamored airline, a major player in its home market, announced this month it is tempering plans to pull fares from legacy channels. It made the decision "in order to smoothen the technology transformation for our corporate customers." No, not that airline.
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Most Buyers Project 2023 Travel Spending To Be Below 2019 Levels

Buyers Project Travel Spending Below 2019
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American, Sabre Cap Frenzied 12 Months With Nick-Of-Time NDC Activation

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, American Airlines and Sabre were preparing for an antitrust trial in which the airline cast Sabre as a monopolist and lambasted its "full-content" contract terms. Today, the two jointly announced that, effective Monday, April 3, Sabre will deliver on the New Distribution Capability-based connection.
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Channel Differentiation Coming April 3, AA To Show NDC-Only Content Cards

American Airlines in a memo to travel agencies on Monday confirmed that April 3 is the date when it will "begin to offer our best available third-party public channel content only through NDC connections."
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SAS Dumps 'Wholesale Model' And Datalex, Inks 'Massive' Amadeus Deal

Scandinavian Airlines has abandoned its proposed "wholesale model" in its home markets after signing a new distribution and IT services agreement with Amadeus.
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TMC Outliers Tout Direct Connects As Antidote For AApril AAnxiety

Many travel management companies are anxious about American Airlines' looming distribution changes. Some want the carrier to delay its plans to remove content from traditional distribution connections. Others are assessing workarounds and tradeoffs. Then there's AmTrav, Navan and Spotnana.
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Buyers Assess Traveler Tracking Methods

Buyers Assess Traveler Tracking Methods
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Southwest Goes With Prism For Corporate Contract Management

Southwest Airlines has selected Sabre's Prism data management system to help it design corporate deals and monitor contract performance, the carrier announced Tuesday.
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Cutting Commissions, Contracts, Perks And Staff, AA Blazes Direct Strategy

Even beyond a disruptive distribution strategy set to burst open next month, American Airlines in the past six months has thrust profound change on agency and corporate relationships by pulling agency commissions, curtailing corporate perks and diminishing corporate contracts.
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CBRE Projects Steady Gains In U.S. Hotel Occupancy, Rates, RevPAR

CBRE Projects Steady Gains
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