What happens when airlines, distributors and agencies come together to talk about merchandising?
Six new talking points around travel merchandising and one for Google
June 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
Sabre says new desktop readies agents — and airlines — for ancillary services
June 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Sabre’s new agency desktop, unveiled this morning, enables travel agents to shop by total price, including fees for checked bags and premium seats, and its arrival sends this message to airlines — we can handle ancillary services, so bring them on.
Market opportunity? Spirit Airlines debuts pre-reclined seats
April 22, 2010 By 11 Comments
Well if merchandising is all about differentiation, then Spirit Airlines is making its mark. Its latest cost-saving mood? Airline seats which don’t recline.
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American Airlines details direct-connect plans, says user-pay model is urban myth
April 20, 2010 By 6 Comments
What user-pay model?
American Airlines: No declaration about user-pay model
April 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
American Airlines, which hasn’t spoken publicly about its merchandising and distribution plans, issued a short statement on the subject.
Corporations, agencies back airline merchandising, but distribution is another story
April 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
The Business Travel Coalition and the American Society of Travel Agents got more than 200 corporations and travel management companies to back airline efforts to collect fees for checked bags and premium seats, but the signatories to a letter sent to U.S. carriers want to ensure that they — and not solely the airlines — get to choose the distribution channel where these ancillary services get fulfilled.
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Six of the big questions around travel merchandising
April 7, 2010 By 6 Comments
It’s official – the debate around merchandising has switched from the conceptual to the practical, perhaps meaning it is finally being taken very seriously.
ITA Software on future of flight search, res system, IPO prospects
March 17, 2010 By 4 Comments
ITA Software is working with “three or four” North American and European airlines which are experimenting with offering optional services in consumers’ initial air search — even before they select a flight.
Two Latin American airlines on same page with Datalex platform
March 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
With alliance partners Aero RepĂşblica and Copa Airlines now using the Datalex Travel Distribution Platform, the two Latin America carriers can leverage alliance benefits for their customers, Datalex says.
Amadeus introduces fare-merchandising tool for travel agencies
January 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
Amadeus introduced a tool which it hopes will help travel agencies, both online and offline, better merchandise airline fares.
The intent of Amadeus Master Pricer Agent Fare Families is to enable travel agencies to group airline fares with similar restrictions — nonrefundable or fully flexible fares, for instance — into categories or “fare families” for merchandising purposes. Agencies would be able to establish up to six categories of fares from different airlines.
The not-so-subliminal message from Amadeus is that if airlines can get involved with fare families, then travel agencies can get into the act, as well.
