Worldspan
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Travelport announced an agreement to acquire Galileo Southern Africa from South African Airways
The acquired business will be combined with a two-year-old Worldspan operation into a unit called Travelport Southern Africa. Travelport also signed a five-year full-content agreement with the airline.
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Travelport on Thursday announced a multi-year content agreement with Lufthansa
which will continue to provide Galileo and Worldspan subscribers with all the carrier's published content and shield users from surcharges associated with Lufthansa Preferred Fares …
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Travelport signed a 'multi-year' agreement with Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines
giving Galileo and Worldspan subscribers continued access the carrier's "full published content," according to a Travelport announcement on Wednesday …
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The Global Business Travel Association named Patricia Higginbotham and Hema Shah to executive posts
… at Strategic Financial Consulting. Earlier in her career, she held an executive position at Cendant/Travelport, where, according to GBTA, "she was the finance lead on the $1.4B Worldspan post-acquisition integration team."
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Travelport and British Midland International extended their distribution agreement
ensuring travel agents connected to the Galileo or Worldspan global distribution systems can access "all" the carrier's fares without incurring surcharges.
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Travelport announced that Rearden Commerce signed a deal to use its Universal API for a single connection to Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan
According to Travelport, Rearden has three separate connections. Unifying them "will provide us with greater operational efficiencies and the ability to redeploy valuable IT resources to other areas of the business," according to Rearden vice president of product management Todd Kaiser. "In the
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Omega World Travel later this year will implement the Amadeus One desktop product
… volume amongst different suppliers and optimize revenues." Omega's primary GDS is Sabre, but it also uses Apollo and Worldspan from Travelport. Amadeus noted that Amadeus One is "open for business" with "full U.S. market availability" beginning …
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Alitalia and Travelport renewed a global full-content agreement
. The multi-year deal provides to Galileo- and Worldspan -connected travel agencies all of the carrier's fares and inventory. Alitalia in December signed an expanded full-content deal with Amadeus .
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European corporate booking platform provider Traveldoo plans to release iPhone mobile and BlackBerry applications that consolidate and synchronize itineraries created through a variety...
… companies as well as supplier websites. Traveldoo claims connections to global distribution systems Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan ; hotel content providers HRS, hotel.info and BSI; U.K. rail service Thetrainline; ground transport facilitator Business …
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Travelport will from Dec. 20 include American Airlines' proposed surcharge on non-U.S. and non-Caribbean travel agencies in GDS fare displays and quotes
so the total cost of the AA ticket can be provided to customers. Travelport, owner of the Galileo and Worldspan reservation systems, informed agents Thursday about its plan in a letter to GDS customers, according to Travel Weekly . The letter …
