An agreement announced this week between Lufthansa Group and Sabre, parties with a contentious and litigious shared history, implied a mutually beneficial path forward for airlines and global distribution systems. However, there are many unknowns, and not everyone will be a winner. If Lufthansa and Sabre can agree on GDS distribution of ancillary services and customized product bundles compliant with…
There’s a line of thinking that says the pandemic is widening a gap between Amadeus and its key rivals, Sabre and Travelport. Not only was Amadeus already using more modern infrastructure, the theory says, but it also genuinely bought into XML-based distribution and related NDC protocols sooner. These factors position it best with airlines that no longer commit “full” content…
With reaction, assessment and recovery on their minds, corporate travel professionals understandably did not focus closely on airline distribution developments this year. Inasmuch as they did, for some, it was a question of how the relevant systems could help the response to the pandemic — or not. There’s some debate about how soon the usually dynamic area will rise again…
[UPDATE, Jan. 13, 2023: This work did not proceed. We published newer info here.”] AmTrav Corporate Travel agreed to start using Journera’s data exchange platform. It is the first travel management company to do so. Founded in 2015 and launched a year later, Journera wants to be the glue in an interconnected travel ecosystem. It uses application programming interfaces to…
Leisure travel bookings continue to recover faster than corporate, which remains down 80 percent year over year, according to Sabre. Speaking with analysts on Friday, Sabre president and CEO Sean Menke said, “We don’t see corporate bookings starting to recover until 2021.” He pointed to intense focus on duty of care and the impact of remote conferencing tech. Down 80…
Travel management company owners who sell their companies in the near future will be fortunate to get half of what they could have earned pre-Covid, according to experts in consolidation speaking last week during a Teleconference call. While the extent to which clients stick around could be a bigger determinant than in the past on how much an owner gains…
This autumn isn’t panning out the way many of us expected. Business travel hasn’t bounced back, and in-person industry education is non-existent. Fortunately, virtual forums are standing in. The batch of insights below came from online events conducted by Deem (Sept. 24), the Institute of Travel Management (Sept. 29), and Atlas Travel, Cornell University and the Global Business Travel Association…
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