BookIt.com gets American Airlines wholesale fares through direct ties
Skift Take
American Airlines' direct-connect push has yet to take off in a huge way, but the BookIt.com agreement shows it ain't dead yet. Old-school GDS protests aside, travel agencies should be able to establish such ties with anyone they want to.
Source: Skift
Author: Dennis Schaal
Large travel management companies may have rebuffed American Airlines' overtures to bypass global distribution systems, but Caribbean package specialist BookIt.com became the latest online travel agency to tie the knot, from a distribution standpoint, with the bankrupt carrier.
Although the official announcement came yesterday, Tom DiBacco, CFO of the Panama City Beach, Fla., OTA, says BookIt.com has been using the American Airlines direct-connect "full-throttle" since the first quarter of 20
