With many travel management companies accepting the IAG airlines' private channel GDS deals, which are left out? Industry experts see the "have-nots" facing ruin or consolidation. The puzzling part is, why would British Airways and Iberia want that?

Posed to a BA press official, that question was not answered. International Airlines Group has declined multiple requests over the past several months for an executive interview about the surcharge program.

IAG airlines in May announced that bookings through GDS channels would be subject as of Nov. 1 to an . . .

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Jay Campbell

Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.

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