Amadeus reports an OK Q3 as it keeps on biting off bigger chunks of the airline industry
Skift Take
Amadeus is much more than a global distribution system provider, and the airline IT solutions side of its business is growing much faster than the still-larger travel agency side.
If you flew this year on British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France, Iberia, Qantas and about 130 other airlines, your carrier was using IT services from Amadeus, even though the majority of the 420 million passengers handled by the company's solutions during the first nine months of 2012 probably never heard of the firm.
Madrid-based Amadeus says the number of passengers boarded on flights using all or parts of the Amadeus Altéa Suite, which provides reservations, inventory management, and departure control systems to airlines, rose 28.4% to 420.4 million through the first three quarters of the year.
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