Open AXIS air distribution standards group taken over by ATPCO

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Airfare data filing service ATPCO has assumed responsibility for the Open AXIS Group, taking over maintaining and developing the organisation’s XML standards for airlines.

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Will Hipmunk lead airline and Open AXIS effort for personalized metasearch deals?

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Is flight metasearch about to get more personal?

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Tnooz Nuggets – Wednesday 13 July 2011

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In this edition: Skyscanner grouping search, Getaroom ups hotel inventory, Open AXIS plugs Distribution 2.0, Youtravel shakes it up.

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Open AXIS Group and Google push open source but wait

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Does an open source standard or software become proprietary if developers have to wait to download them while they are available to others much earlier?

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Travel agency desktop summit may be somewhat clandestine

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Open AXIS Group plans to convene a working group focusing on the alleged inadequacies of the travel agency desktop — but the identities of at least some of the attendees may remain a secret.

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Multiple technology standards in travel – an oxymoron to overcome

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An industry with multiple standards bodies using the same type of technology addressing the same business functions could be seen as an indication of an industry in some disarray.

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Airlines, GDSs and the case of the gourmet chocolate truffle cream cookie

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As American Airlines and Travelport battle over the next phase in travel distribution, the Open Axis Group, the XML standards group which counts American as a member, published a video that purports to show the current shortfalls in GDS distribution of new airline products.

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Distribution 2.0 and new Open AXIS transaction reporting tool

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With travel industry adoption of Electronic Miscellaneous Documents for the settlement of ancillary services perhaps years away, Open AXIS Group says it is readying the release of a new transaction-reporting tool as a stopgap measure.

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Open AXIS board rejects dedicated seat for GDSs

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The Open AXIS Group board rejected a move to offer the GDSs a dedicated board seat that would rotate among them periodically.

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Standards –world peace! Now what?

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On Sept. 10, an auspicious day, a conflict that could have split the travel technology establishment was averted when OpenTravel and the Open AXIS Group agreed to collaborate.

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