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The US Department of Transporation fined Orbitz Worldwide for failure to adequately disclose taxes and fees in certain airfare advertisements in early 2011.
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Yapta, the airfare and hotel rate tracking service, released airfare price-tracking APIs in beta.
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OptionIt plans to offer options on airfares for a major US airline
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If things go according to OptionIt’s plans, a major U.S. airline next year will exclusively use its platform to sell consumers options to lock-in fares on selected routes.
ITA Software powers air-shopping on Southwest Airlines website
October 8, 2009 By 2 Comments
This just in: ITA Software picked up another airline customer for its QPX airfare pricing and shopping system: Southwest Airlines.
The press release hasn’t dropped yet, but the functionality is now live on Southwest.com. The use of ITA gives Southwest a bunch of new capabilities, including calendar-based search and air search using flexible dates.
One key element of this whole thing is that it doesn’t seem to alter the airline’s distribution strategy. You can’t find Southwest flights in any of the metasearch engines, including the crowd powered by ITA (including Kayak, TripAdvisor and others) and Southwest’s absence in metasearch will remain in place. It also doesn’t change Southwest’s availability status in the Sabre and Apollo GDSs.
Another important aspect of this relates to international codeshares.
