Lufthansa Group last week announced it is processing business travel bookings directly with Germany-based conglomerate Siemens. This week it named carmaker Volkswagen for the same.

Lufthansa and Siemens on Aug. 1 began using a Lufthansa-provided connection for bookings on the group's airlines by Germany-based travelers. Officials said other markets will follow, though specifics are not available.

Data for bookings made this way are housed by Lufthansa. The connection uses a "non-GDS interface" developed with Amadeus. Lufthansa is a longtime user of the Amadeus Altéa system for reservations. [That is, the internal supplier system as . . .

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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.