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Articles tagged “gds”

Airlines

Amadeus’ first quarter profit rises and claims its growth is “guaranteed”

There are no sure bets, but Amadeus claims its pipeline of airline deals, including an agreement to power Southwest's reservations systems for international flights, guarantees that the company is on an upward trajectory

Reuters | 11 years ago

Airlines

Airlines need to become better digital retailers, and their own sites are best weapons

Great primer on the push and pull between airlines and the traditional booking distribution systems, and how airlines hold an advantage if they build up good digital retail capabilities.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Blackstone and Travelport had a tough year doing business in Iran

Does Blackstone have an ethics policy related to doing business in Iran and other countries with international sanctions? Or is private equity and ethics a contradiction in terms?

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

American Airlines wants antitrust case with Travelport resolved in a hurry

The issues involved in the American Airlines case have been brewing for YEARS. It's high time that a court decides these antitrust issues.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Will American Airlines go dark for Orbitz and corporations?

Things could remain quiet for a little while until either American Airlines or Travelport blinks, and then all hell will break loose -- again.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

The Syrian government’s cozy relationship with the world’s leading airline ticketing companies

Real corporate responsibility begins when companies go beyond mere "compliance" with regulations against outcast airlines and governments.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

The Syrian government’s cozy relationship with the world’s leading airline ticketing companies

Airlines

Fee displays on airline websites are dynamic and inconsistent

The article takes a useful look at ancillary fees and how airlines handle them differently, but it errs in portraying dynamic pricing as necessarily bad, and it downplays the shortcomings of GDS and travel agency displays.

Skift | 11 years ago

Fee displays on airline websites are dynamic and inconsistent

Hotels

Vacation rental association continues its listless push for distribution

The vacation rental switch will be used by professionally managed properties for wider distribution and this would give travelers more reliable options when staying in vacation homes.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Vacation rental association continues its listless push for distribution

Hotels

Travelport’s woes may put a crimp in its controller Blackstone’s travel ambitions

Travelports' woes demonstrate the challenges ahead for its GDS peers Sabre and Apollo. One day -- and that day will be soon -- a new generation of online travel agencies and smarter airline websites will render their current services obsolete.

Christine Idzelis, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Airlines

Why the American Airlines-Sabre settlement had nothing to do with antitrust

American Airlines looks like the clear winner in its settlement with Sabre as the antitrust issue clearly took a back seat to using the courts to ram through a better deal for the airline.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Why the American Airlines-Sabre settlement had nothing to do with antitrust