Hawaiian Airlines is quietly changing its distribution strategy. Beginning April 1, travel agencies in the U.S. that use the "legacy technologies" of the global distribution systems Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport will be cut off from the airline's fares for travel...
Read MoreIberia said its distribution overhaul will speed up its ability in 2022 to roll out new products, such as by letting it more easily bundle seats with ancillaries at new price points. “The technology we’ve adopted is more agile and...
Read MoreSabre, in an investor presentation last week, noted the following: In 44 of the past 50 years, the number of global airline passengers increased from the year prior. And in those six years where traffic did decline, it never declined...
Read MoreAmadeus, in its latest earnings call, mentioned Turkish Airlines as a prime candidate for a passenger service system (PSS) upgrade. “Turkish is a very close customer to us,” said CEO Luis Maroto. “We provide them with different functionalities. And we...
Read MoreBusiness Travel News (BTN) published its latest ranking of the 100 largest U.S. corporate travel buyers, who collectively spent almost $12b on U.S.-originating trips last year. That was a record. At the top of the list was Deloitte, one of...
Read MoreDatalex, an Irish software company specializing in airline distribution solutions, cited four emerging trends at its annual shareholders meeting. One is that sales through digital direct channels (like an airline’s own web and mobile sites) are recovering at a faster...
Read MoreBoth Sabre and Amadeus, in their Q1 earnings calls, used the term “severe” to describe the impact of the Covid crisis. Neither company sees much meaningful improvement in travel demand yet. Both, like airlines, are in liquidity preservation mode. And...
Read MoreFor Sabre, 80% of its revenues are directly tied to air traffic transaction volumes. You can then figure out just how difficult things are for the company right now. Gross bookings declined by 8%, 17% and 70% y/y, in January,...
Read MoreVirus fears are reaching even Latin America, about as distant as you can get from Wuhan. Despegar, a leading online travel retailer in the region, expressed concern in its latest earnings call about two second-order effects. One is what the...
Read MoreDuring its Q4 earnings call, Sabre outlined a $150m investment plan to achieve several key goals, including a migration away from relying heavily on transaction-based GDS fees for revenues. It instead wants to charge airlines (and hotels) to help them...
Read MoreIndian online travel agency (OTA) MakeMyTrip said macroeconomic headwinds affected its calendar Q4 earnings, even as the Indian government works to improve airport infrastructure. The International Monetary Fund has downgraded India’s GDP growth to 4.8% for the current fiscal year,...
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