
First it was Aug. 31, then Sept. 6 and now Sabre says its contract with American Airlines has been extended until the end of September.

First it was Aug. 31, then Sept. 6 and now Sabre says its contract with American Airlines has been extended until the end of September.

Now that year-long negotiations with the Vacation Rental Managers Association have collapsed, Pegasus Solutions says it is continuing to develop a vacation rental switch and will bring it to market on its own.
With a June 2 tipping point looming, American Airlines filed a request for a status conference with the Texas court handling its litigation with Sabre.

American Airlines employees have been visiting travel agents in several states over the last few weeks carrying several documents — nondisclosure agreements about their discussions and direct-connect licensing contracts.
First American Airlines left Orbitz Worldwide websites in December and now sister brands National Car Rental and Alamo are slated to bid adieu April 1, although the issues appear to be disparate.

Reports on negotiations between the U.S. Department of Justice and Google on its proposed $700 million acquisition of ITA Software may call into question some of Google’s pledges to ITA’s customers.
Google is reportedly talking to the Department of Justice, negotiating conditions on its proposed $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, in a bid to forestall a DOJ move to block the deal.

Sabre and American Airlines agreed to shelve their pending litigation until June 1, 2011, in the hopes of reaching a new GDS contract, which is slated to expire in September 2011.

American Airlines says it invited the major global distribution systems to tie into its new direct-connect technology and negotiated with them for more than a year.
In the last round of GDS negotiations in 2007, airlines such as American Airlines and Delta Airlines stridently warned that they would pull out of major GDSs if the carriers didn’t get their way.

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