Amadeus steps up efforts to enable personalized travel experiences
Roughly 79% of travelers prefer to buy ancillary products and services directly from airlines rather than a third party to create a total tr... Continue Reading
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Airlines move closer to speaking the same sales language
IATA’s Resolution 787 – which will serve as the foundation for a new XML-based data transmission standard for the airline industry – has rec... Continue Reading
United uses dynamic pricing to shore up Economy Plus revenue
After pioneering a version of the ‘premium economy’ concept in the US market roughly 15 years ago, United Airlines is fully accu... Continue Reading
Airlines developing NDC-friendly tools to bolster merchandising
Now that US regulators have given their tentative nod to IATAʼs New Distribution Capability (NDC), which offers a framework for XML-based da... Continue Reading
Sabre identifies three broad airline merchandising trends
Major global distribution system Sabre has identified three broad merchandising trends in the airline industry – bundled pricing, unbundled ... Continue Reading
Economy Comfort among pillars of Delta’s merchandising
Delta Air Lines recorded a 20% bump in revenue from sales of products in its emerging merchandising portfolio during the first quarter to $1... Continue Reading
Ryanair will “shamelessly steal” PaxEx ideas
Ryanair chief commercial officer David O’Brien readily admits that the carrier views air travel as a commodity, but says he will “shamelessl... Continue Reading
How United plans to grow Economy Plus sales
Unitedʼs Economy Plus seating has returned to the Travelport global distribution systems (GDS) Worldspan and Galileo with its Economy Plus e... Continue Reading
Ryanair likely to keep lowest fares on website
Ryanair expects to start selling tickets through “one or more” global distribution system (GDS) providers by the middle of this year, but wi... Continue Reading
Ryanair THANKS customers; vows new leaf
Ryanair’s attempt to reshape its battered image into a kindler, gentler budget carrier went into overdrive yesterday, when it thanked its cu... Continue Reading
Delta to make Economy Comfort option more visible
Achieving maximum exposure for Delta Air Lines’ ‘Economy Comfort’ extra legroom product has proven to be difficult, though... Continue Reading
Surprise! Ryanair is eyeing GDSs, Wi-Fi
Offering inflight Wi-Fi to passengers is “very high up the list” of priorities for Ryanair, and its previous staunch opposition to the use o... Continue Reading
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