
HP may or may not be mulling a plan to shed its PC business, but new agreements with US Airways and Dollar Thrifty highlight how IT services and transportation will remain a core business.

HP may or may not be mulling a plan to shed its PC business, but new agreements with US Airways and Dollar Thrifty highlight how IT services and transportation will remain a core business.
HP downsized a contingent of contractors working on its Agilaire Passenger Service Solution and American Airlines’ Jetstream projects, according to sources.
Pegasus Solutions’ core business is hotel reservation and distribution technology, including its hotel switch, but the company is getting involved in airline, rail, cruise and vacation rental reservations, too.
Travelport is keeping its IPO options open, after pulling back on a public offering attempt in London in February, but subsequent developments in 2010 certainly haven’t improved its prospects.
The big decision is in: United Airlines plans to wean itself off its decades-long reservations-system provider, Travelport’s Apollo, and to migrate its reservations to HP in 2012.
HP finally took the wraps off the branding of the airline reservations system it is developing, calling it the HP Agilaire Passenger Service Solution.

American Airlines is proceeding with plans to have HP build the airline a new internal reservations system, dubbed Jetstream.

Score another win for Sabre as AeroMexico selected SabreSonic for the airline’s new internal reservations system. You can also look at it as a little bit of revenge.
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.
Some seven months after American Airlines and HP signed a letter of intent for HP to build a new passenger services system for American, an airline spokesman revealed the two parties have reached a formal agreement.

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