Articles tagged “amadeus”

It looks like Southwest's controversially tame advertising campaign will need some major tweaks next year when the airline starts flying internationally.

Air passengers in Asia are fortunate to see such robust competition where they fly. In North America, almost one-fourth of routes see just two airlines vying for passenger allegiance.

These five niche traveler types in Asia and around the world wil increasingly define the future of travel, and its up to the travel industry to figure out how to capture their attention and credit cards.

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.

With all the money at its disposal, you'd think Amadeus could hire the right people and come up with an attractive design for this iPad app. On the other hand, the app seems more like brochureware than an earnest attempt to win over consumers.

Communication is at the core of these mobile solutions that aim to help corporations and travel agents anticipate travel hassles before they occur and easily alert travelers of itinerary changes.

Although its contracts were up this year, where else is there to go?

The easing of GDS restrictions in China is a huge development for the GDSs themselves and international airlines. The overture undoubtedly will be tightly controlled as China continues to open up more broadly to the rest of the world.

Now that Google owns ITA, Amadeus fills a need for Kayak, Hipmunk and Expedia, but we're skeptical that the quality of Amadeus Meta Pricer is up to the task.