Cendant Pans Aer Lingus, Reports Q3

Cendant's Travel Distribution Services division in the third quarter enjoyed 46 percent year-over-year growth in online transactions including a 39 percent boost in online gross bookings through the Galileo International global distribution system. A move by Aer Lingus to exit the GDSs in Ireland as well as labor troubles at Alitalia helped reduce overall Galileo transactions by 2.8 percent and international TDS transactions by 4.4 percent, but TDS transactions grew 0.6 percent in the United St