At a time when some ITA Software customers express concern about Google’s pending acquisition, US Airways broadened the relationship.
Google-ITA Software deal: CNN clash over license renewals
December 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
A proponent and opponent of Google’s pending acquisition of ITA Software didn’t take a holiday this week and clashed on CNN over the issue of software license renewals.
Kayak to pay ITA Software at least $21M over three years
November 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
There are some juicy details in its S-1 filing about Kayak’s financial obligations to and dependence on ITA Software.
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Hipmunk, ITA Software team to take the agony out of availability and pricing
November 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
Hipmunk, a metasearch startup which sees its mission as taking the agony out of flight search, signed a deal to use ITA Software’s QPX solution for airfare shopping and pricing.
Student Universe supplements Sabre with ITA Software for search
October 27, 2010 By 3 Comments
ITA Software picked up Student Universe.com as a client, its first new customer, albeit a relatively small one, since Google announced July 1 its intent to buy ITA.
Google-ITA Software deal: ITA goes mobile with airline business
October 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
In what might be considered a logical evolution, ITA Software has expanded its business-to-business QPX airline pricing and shopping business to the mobile channel.
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Google-ITA Software deal: US Airways expands ITA relationship
September 24, 2010 By 3 Comments
There are no reports of any companies dropping ITA Software yet because of its pending acquisition by Google and, in fact, US Airways just expanded its ITA relationship.
Virgin Atlantic adds ITA Software flight search
June 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Virgin Atlantic began using ITA Software’s QPX airfare shopping and pricing system on the Virgin website.
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.
Air Canada assisting ITA’s reservations system hopes with other airlines
October 14, 2009 By 3 Comments
Air Canada, which took a $61 million write-off several months ago and scuttled a 4-year-old ITA Software project to overhaul the airline’s reservations system, apparently is ready to assist the technology firm in its efforts to pedal the Passenger Services System to other airlines.
In an ITA Software announcement about a second deal to implement ITA’s QPX pricing and shopping system across AirCanada.com and its agency websites, ITA stated: “Air Canada will provide testing and domain expertise to ITA as it completes the remaining work on its industry-changing Passenger Services System (PSS) solution.”
When asked if that work with ITA pertained to eventual implementation of the discontinued Polaris res system project, Air Canada spokesman John Reber told me: βThe testing and domain expertise provided on PSS is to support ITA in proposals for other airlines.β
