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Judge Finds Sabre Should Pay AA Attorney Fees Despite Paltry Damages

American Airlines and Sabre have found a moment of calm in their stormy relationship, save for a lingering dispute over attorneys' fees from their long-running federal antitrust litigation that ended last year. A U.S. magistrate judge this week determined that the airline should be able to recoup "reasonable" fees from Sabre.
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Air France-KLM Green Lights NDC Content Benefits, Even With TMC Surcharge At Red

Air France-KLM in June will remove from traditionally connected global distribution systems its lowest-priced economy Light fares in short- and mid-haul markets, vice president of distribution Stéphane Ormand said in an interview last week. This follows the airline group's withdrawal in January of limited-time promotional offers from those channels.
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ANALYSIS: On Better NDC Fares, American's Top 40 Has Carrier Company

American Airlines has taken plenty of arrows from the trade for its New Distribution Capability-hooked strategy, but it's got company in channel differentiation.
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Mum On Timing, Concur Sees More Work Ahead On GDS NDC Connections

"We continue to track GDS progress in connecting to airline NDC APIs," according to SAP Concur. "Some still do not yet include important tools that business travelers and travel managers rely on."
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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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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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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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