The GDSs countered that some ancillary services are all but universal, even essential, among them baggage fees and seat assignments (some airlines charge passengers to reserve any seat, not just a ...

Executives of traditional GDSs offered differing views on just how realistic new-entrant claims are, even as more rumblings surfaced regarding G2 SwitchWorks and ITA Software penetrating the corporate ...

ATLANTA -- Representatives of the four GDSs formed a united front at the ResExpo 2005 conference here, as they came out swinging to debunk the promises of the GDS new entrants and to defend their ...

Boeing subsidiary Tapestry Solutions has been awarded a contract to sustain and modernise the US Air Force’s Global Decision Support System (GDSS). GDSS is the principal C2 software platform that ...

One of the more transformational events taking place in the airline industry today is the increasingly tense situation between airlines and the Global Distribution Systems that are their "partners" in ...

At this week’s Eye For Travel conference, executives from Sabre, Galileo, Amadeus and Worldspan stood up to claims that GDSs would not stand the test of time. Debate moderator, Mike Fill, a partner at ...

There's no question that GDSs have had to change with the times. Travel agents today expect them to provide more Internet assistance, fares they can pull up seamlessly and a plan of action for the ...

Amadeus last week said it would raise supplier segment pricing at a lower-than-usual 2 percent rate effective Jan. 1, 2002, signaling welcome news for suppliers seeking any break they can get. Wall ...

The latest round, a move by Air Canada to withhold some of its most attractive fares from the GDSs and so from corporate travel departments, comes as the industry is still trying to digest an ...

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The DOD’s Combat Commands (COCOMs) present unique sales challenges and opportunities to the COTS community. They can be complex both in their funding processes and in how they integrate and operate ...