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Some airlines looking for standards alternative to Open Travel Alliance
Some airlines — as yet unidentified — are exploring alternatives to the Open Travel Alliance. That’s the word from one of the parties involved, who says he’s been asked by several airlines to canvas...
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Rent-A-Wreck: Kayak yes, global distribution systems no
Rent-A-Wreck used OpenTravel XML schema to hook up to Kayak about a year ago and will soon use the same type of interface to connect to CarRentalExpress.com, a spokesman says. Jason Manelli, a...
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Amadeus Cars Plus goes online with XML
Amadeus is targeting online players, including airlines, with a revamped product, Amadeus Cars Plus XML. The solution, which uses e-Retail XML messages, streamlines existing Amadeus Web Services...
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Sabre to show ancillary services from 60 airlines globally
Tired of airlines keeping ancillary services in their own channels, Sabre went out and got them. To a certain extent. Sabre Travel Network unveiled the global rollout of Air Total Pricing, a product...
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American Airlines solicits travel agencies for direct-connect
American Airlines is proceeding with plans to sign up travel agencies to access its reservations system through AA Direct Connect and outside the global distribution systems. In a new American Airlines...
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Datalex, OpenTravel gear up for optional services
In fits and starts, travel tech companies and associations around the world are gearing up to handle airline optional services. Two cases in point from Europe and the U.S. over the last couple of days:...
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Distribution 2.0 and new Open AXIS transaction reporting tool
With travel industry adoption of Electronic Miscellaneous Documents for the settlement of ancillary services perhaps years away, Open AXIS Group says it is readying the release of a new...
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Farelogix probes divergent Travelport views on Air Canada, American Airlines...
In its latest Ask the Question video, Farelogix points to the seeming contradiction between Travelport’s praise of its direct-connect with Air Canada and vehement opposition to American Airlines Direct...
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Airlines find a new ancillary services distributor in Rearden Commerce
Airlines looking to distribute ancillary services such as checked bags, seat upgrades and meals outside of the global distribution systems have found a new partner in Rearden Commerce. Rearden plans to...
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What is all the fuss? Sabre has hundreds of direct connections
With the latest direct-connect chess moves as a backdrop, Sabre is telling customers that it already has a “direct connections” with American Airlines “and hundreds of other airlines globally.” Of...
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Travel technology shakedown – are APIs evil and is XML dead?
Developers grapple with data all the time, so the idea that someone might characterise data as “broken” is probably not going to take many aback. But, participating in a panel discussion during the...
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Social media considered valuable resource for data collection on new travel...
Interesting results from a survey conducted by EyeforTravel to identify trends in data sourcing shows the influence of social media when consider product strategy. A study of “hundreds” of product...
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Open APIs in travel need to grow up
Open APIs (those that are freely or cheaply and easily available) are great – the travel industry has a long and checkered past with proprietary access to information that has, as most here will argue,...
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Three important things the travel industry can teach the world about APIs
The travel industry has a tendency to enjoy bashing itself for everything poor and bad its sees happening, sometimes looking outside to bring a fresh perspective. But most other verticals are only just...
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Groupon takes tour operator route in France and Germany, OTA next
Flash deals service Groupon says it is establishing itself as an online travel agency as the next logical step for it in Europe. The company has already set up separate tour operating companies in...
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The real NDC: Decoding the planned (r)evolution in airline distribution by...
A proposed dramatic overhaul of the technological standards for how airlines provide airfare content to end users probably won’t lift carriers out of the grasp of middlemen. But that doesn’t mean the...
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The New York Times slams the airlines’ proposed NDC, and IATA responds
The opinion pages of the New York Times remain the bulletin board of the American chattering classes and one of the most prominent platforms for delivering a message to US political leaders. And in...
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IATA strikes back at Business Travel Coalition over the NDC
NB: This is a viewpoint from The International Air Transport Association (IATA), in response to a document circulated by the Business Travel Coalition, and which is asking Transportation Secretary Ray...
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Amadeus explains its qualified support of IATA’s Resolution 787 and talks NDC
Who would have thought that a 10-page proposal to change airline distribution communications from EDIFACT to Extensible Markup Language (XML) could cause so much disagreement among stakeholders?...
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Who needs an API? Maybe YOU don’t after all
SYSTEMS: In recent years the travel industry has thrown itself head-first into the world APIs, with large swathes powered or supported by feeds carrying product information, content, functionality and...
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