With American Airlines and HP having just signed a contract for HP to build a new reservations system, called Jetstream, for the airline, it now turns out that American has an exit clause in the event it gets cold feet about the massive project, according to a source.
After a tiff that went public less than a month ago, Choice Hotels and Expedia Inc. reached a new three-year agreement, which should have the hotel franchisor’s properties back on Expedia’s and hotels.com’s more than 80 websites within a week or so.
And, Choice-affiliated properties that want to participate in Expedia’s opaque channel, Hotwire, will be able to do so a later juncture, the companies stated.
From all outward appearances, it looks like Choice Hotels, despite its bluster, is the party that blinked in this skirmish, which seemingly revolved around last-room availability and rate parity.
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