Travelport has unveiled a self-booking tool called TripGate, developed specifically for the Eastern European market
Travelport delivers corporate booking tool to Eastern Europe
October 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Morning Scan: Expedia migrates smoothly, Southwest has an IT fiasco, Priceline preps for earnings, and more travel tech news
August 6, 2012 By 1 Comment
Expedia says its migration to a unified IT platform for all of its brands is going smoothly, while Southwest admits that a technical glitch in its reservation system caused ridiculous billing glitches for hundreds of customers. Meanwhile, speculation runs rife about whether Priceline’s earnings report tomorrow.
IATA distribution initiative: The GDS view
August 1, 2012 By 4 Comments
In October, the airline industry will propose new processes be adopted by the four mammoth Global Distribution Systems: Abacus, Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport.
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Travelport research shows agent confusion in airline ancillary market
February 1, 2012 By 4 Comments
Few agents currently view airline ancillaries as an opportunity to charge or increase fees according to a survey from Travelport
Travelport partners with TravelSky to beef up seat map technology
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Travelport has joined forces with Beijing-based TravelSky on a project aimed at taking seat map technology to the next level.
Travelport offers UK agents software app to book British Airways pre-paid seats
February 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
UK travel agents hooked up to the Travelport global distribution system can now download a software application to book British Airways’ pre-paid seats.
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American Airlines to charge agents a surcharge on Travelport bookings
November 17, 2010 By 6 Comments
The American Airlines dispute with Orbitz and Travelport just got global in nature with the airline poised to charge travel agents outside the U.S. a surcharge on all bookings processed through Travelport’s Galileo and Worldspan global distribution systems beginning in February.
Southwest ties into Travelport API for live availability
November 3, 2010 By 3 Comments
Offline agencies booking through the new Travelport Universal API will get Southwest live availability and last seat inventory because the airline is connecting to the API as part of an expanded multiyear content agreement.
Travelport rediscovering hotels, reorganizes team
October 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Travelport GDS reorganizing its hotel distribution and advertising business on a global basis to give it more focus.
Travelport gushing over strong start to Leisure agent portal
July 14, 2010 By 4 Comments
Travelport appears to be popping the champagne after just five weeks since the relaunch of its Travelport Leisure hotel portal for travel agents.
