American Airlines and Sabre are back in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Testimony was scheduled to begin Monday in an antitrust trial that originally went AA’s way, but returned for a redo after an appellate court ruling about mistakes made with jury instructions. An AA win could mean more…
As corporate travel managers work to meet their leaders’ dictates on climate change, they have new needs. Travel management companies, tech firms and other service providers continue developing solutions. CWT, for example, partnered with carbon intelligence platform Thrust Carbon to provide carbon footprint indicators on its myCWT mobile and web booking points of sale. Point-of-sale…
[CLARIFICATION, March 31, 2022: This article has been adjusted to indicate that integration with LinkedIn is a possible future use case rather than a feature now available as part of the Amadeus Cytric-Microsoft 365 offering.] Is this the year that the Amadeus Cytric online self-booking and expense management system makes a North American splash? The…
In addition to accessing relevant content when booking travel, making sense of offers and how they stack up continues to be a challenge. Amadeus is working with airlines, travel management companies and corporations to allow for predetermined values on the various components of bundled, branded or otherwise personalized air travel offers at the point of…
When American Express Global Business Travel last month announced plans to go public during the first half of this year via a merger with a blank check company, it noted a set of “most relevant” publicly traded peer companies. These included the only public travel agency firm totally focused on business, Australia-based Corporate Travel Management,…
It’s a chicken-and-egg scenario as corporate travel management companies face hard decisions on staffing. When clients resume traveling, they need reliable, expert service more than ever. But with demand in doubt, how proactive can TMCs be in bringing back their people and recruiting more? It’s a question that begets more. How have agent roles been…
Sabre on Wednesday said former CWT president and CEO Kurt Ekert, who previously spent 14 years as a leader with Travelport and related organizations, would become its president as of Jan. 3. Sean Menke retains the CEO role. The move builds “a leadership team for the future of Sabre,” according to a press statement. A…
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