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Articles tagged “ndc”

Business Travel

New American Airlines Strategy Leaves Agencies With Dramatically Higher Airfares

Three days into the airline's ticketing shakeup, travel agencies are seeing big gaps in ticket prices. They were warned, but there appear to be other issues on the horizon.

Matthew Parsons | 8 months ago

New American Airlines Strategy Leaves Agencies With Dramatically Higher Airfares

Business Travel

American Airlines Will Offer Its New Fares in Sabre From April 3

There’s no going back with the final global distribution system in place, so next week really is crunch time for whether corporate travel booking flows will face an apocalyptic disruption — or not.

Matthew Parsons | 8 months ago

American Airlines Will Offer Its New Fares in Sabre From April 3

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Copa Airlines Raises Global Distribution Surcharge to $18

Panama’s Copa Airlines is increasing its surcharge for tickets issued in Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport from $12 to $18 per direction. The fee hike takes effect from April 3, 2023 — coinciding with when American Airlines removes 40 percent of its own airfares from these same retail channels.  In both cases, the airlines are pushing…

Matthew Parsons | 8 months ago

Airlines

American Airlines Riles Travel Agents With Insistence on Changes to Airfare Sales

Even after the American Society of Travel Advisors weighed in with a plea to delay the removal of 40 percent of airfares from traditional retail channels by eight months, the carrier has confirmed there’ll be no 11th hour reprieve. All the travel industry can do now is brace itself.

Matthew Parsons | 8 months ago

American Airlines Riles Travel Agents With Insistence on Changes to Airfare Sales

Business Travel

Travelport Buys Corp Booking Tool Deem Off Enterprise Holdings

Ever since selling Locomote, its previous corporate booking tool, Travelport was left with a gap. Now with new types of content coming soon to the U.S., courtesy of American Airlines and its New Distribution Capability push, Deem fills the void.

Matthew Parsons | 9 months ago

Travelport Buys Corp Booking Tool Deem Off Enterprise Holdings

Business Travel

Former Orbitz Exec Partners With Spotnana in New Corp Travel Venture

Industry veteran Mark Walton is using Spotnana’s new booking technology to power his latest venture, Solutions Travel. Will its software deliver?

Matthew Parsons | 9 months ago

Former Orbitz Exec Partners With Spotnana in New Corp Travel Venture

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American Airlines Begins Layoffs in Corporate Travel Department

American Airlines' restructuring of its global sales team will involve the departure of three experienced senior leaders, Skift has learned. The reorganization impacts its U.S operations and includes a number of layoffs. Other global regions are set to follow, with the cuts coming just weeks ahead of its move to shift more of its airfares…

Matthew Parsons | 9 months ago

Airlines

American Airlines Is Shaking Up Corporate Travel Booking: Here’s Why

From April, the airline will stop selling almost half its airfares through traditional channels, instead selling them exclusively through its own website and so-called New Distribution Capability-powered channels. The shakeup mostly impacts travel agencies and corporations that fly American for business. We explain.

Matthew Parsons | 9 months ago

American Airlines Is Shaking Up Corporate Travel Booking: Here’s Why

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Travel Tech at JetBlue, Avis, Hilton and Avianca Still Seems Archaic

There's been well-deserved excitement in travel tech circles in recent years about everything from the New Distribution Capability to chatbots and the arrival of generative AI, but the reality is that much of what passes for travel technology is still backwards these days. An elevator at the Phoenix Airport car rental center on January 10,…

Dennis Schaal | 10 months ago

Business Travel

Behind the Dutch Government’s Arduous Bid to Wrest Back Its Travel Program

After a vendor price-gouging lawsuit, the government is moving away from legacy travel companies and instead stitching together its own program to better control costs and gain access to a wider range of airlines and hotels. It took awhile to get there.

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Behind the Dutch Government’s Arduous Bid to Wrest Back Its Travel Program