Sabre in dispute with Uruguay national airline Pluna

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Sabre’s second largest office in the world is in Montevideo, but a contract dispute with Uruguay’s national carrier, Pluna, now finds the airline’s flights absent from the global distribution system.

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And now Amadeus enters into truce with American Airlines

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Following agreements by Travelport and Sabre, Amadeus has now entered into a “medium-term” contract to extend its full-content agreement with American Airlines.

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Sabre: American Airlines antitrust suit is negotiating ploy

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After intervening in American Airlines’ antitrust claim against Orbitz Worldwide and Travelport, Sabre filed a motion to dismiss the suit.

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Priceline: Ticketing milestone with American Airlines direct connect

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Seldom does a company issue a press release and then refuse all comment about it, but this was the case today with Priceline’s announcement that it had reached a milestone in its 6-month-old deployment of American Airlines Direct Connect.

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A distribution view — If airlines were TV channels

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Much of the seemingly epic struggle between the airlines and the distribution channels is about content. Full content to be exact.

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American Airlines jabs Orbitz on YouTube

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Judging from the latest American Airlines commercial on YouTube, the chances of an American Airlines content agreement with Orbitz Worldwide in the short-term are very slim.

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Snubbing snippets — NileGuide API enables full content with links

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NileGuide released a free public API to disseminate its guide, trips and blog content, but unlike most such endeavors, it is allowing publishers to display full content with a link — and not just a paragraph or two.

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