Southwest Airlines expects next quarter to add virtually all its fares and inventory to Travelport's Apollo and Worldspan global distribution systems, in accordance with its August announcement about expanded GDS participation. Amadeus and Travelport's Galileo will get equivalent feeds later this year. Sabre is TBD.
"We are no longer having conversations regarding full participation within Sabre and will remain at the basic booking level for the time being," according to a Southwest press official.
Accessing Southwest through GDSs rather than, say, via . . .