Sabre and Amadeus Extend their Influence in PSS
Further evidence that Sabre and Amadeus are becoming more dominant in their favoured market segments.
27/09/2010
Southwest Airlines to buy AirTran for $1.4B
Associated Press and many others report that Southwest Airlines has agreed to acquire all the shares of AirTran. This will combine the two largest hybrid airlines in North America to create a giant carrier that will board over 140 million passengers this year.
This could be a blow to Navitaire and Farelogix. Air Tran is currently Navitaire's largest North American customer and it uses Farelogix for ancillary sales but it is likely that the combined carrier will use Southwest's IT systems.
Currently Southwest uses a dedicated passenger services system provided by Sabre. In the last year Sabre has won three major customers from Navitaire as airlines coming from the low-cost tradition seek to add more complex functionality around interline and code-share.
27/09/2010
BA and Iberia merger cleared for takeoff
BA and Iberia have no further obstacles to their combination. The two oneworld carriers will have their path to merger smoothed by shared use of the Amadeus reservations platform. This will surely now confirm that Iberia will also migrate to use Altea Inventory and DCS from Amadeus. The structure of the new group allows for more airlines to be added in future. Willie Walsh is said to have a shopping list. Most of the airlines rumoured to be on it are also Amadeus customers. This is unlikely to be coincidence.
23/09/2010
Google-ITA deal gets closer DOJ scrutiny
To nobody's real surprise the United States Department of Justice is to scrutinise the proposed Google acquisition of ITA more closely. At first sight this should be a binary decision. The deal will be allowed or not allowed. Unlike with airline mergers there are no slots or routes that could be ceded to competitors in return for approval. Or could a creative bureaucrat come up with a way of allowing the deal but restricting its anti-competitive effects?
31/08/2010
Malware implicated in fatal Spanair plane crash
Reports from Spain indicate that Spanair's MRO system may have been infected by malware, leading to a failure to take out of service an aircraft with known problems. Reports have failed to identify the precise MRO system in use at Spanair but then-parent company SAS uses AuRA from MIRO technologies which definitely has a Windows component. Until now the fact that Windows is the target of most malware in the wild has been an economic issue. Perhaps now it has contributed to the loss of 154 lives.
23/08/2010
LAN / TAM Merger Will Dominate its Region
The proposed merger of LAN and TAM will create a regional giant with almost a third of all Latin American passengers. Amadeus and Sabre will be making great efforts to win the PSS business of the newly-merged airline.
18/08/2010
Brazilian airline TAM plans to merge with Chile's LAN
The BBC reports on the first Latin American mega-merger. While the new LATAM airline group will not match the major North American and European carriers for sheer size it will dominate its region more than any other airline in the world. It will also pose some delicate issues of allignement as TAM is a member of Star Alliance and uses the Amadeus PSS, LAN belongs to oneworld and is in the process of migration to Sabre. Watch this space.
13/08/2010
Ryanair Court Wins May Have Far-Reaching Effects
Ryanair often finds itself in court but in a few recent cases it has been plaintiff rather than defendant. The fact that it has won cases against screen-scrapers may have long-lasting effects.
09/08/2010
Google Loves IT(A). It’s Official!
The confirmation of Google's acquisition of ITA will have major repercussions for the whole industry.
01/07/2010
Mercator Acquisition of TikAero Recalls Old Swissair Links
Mercator is acquiring a small PSS vendor that will add neither meaningful market share nor groundbreaking functionality. Is it just to tick a box?
21/06/2010
Google Finally Makes a Move
Google's reported acquisition of ITA Software represents the search giant's first significant move into travel distribution. The implications are not yet clear but could be enormous.
07/05/2010
Sabre Success in Mexico Points to Dominance in the Americas
Sabre and Aeromexico have announced that the Mexican airline will migrate to Sabre's SabreSonic passenger services system.
22/04/2010
Sabre Acquires Deeper Capabilities in Revenue Integrity
The acquisition of Calidris by Sabre fills an important gap in Sabre's portfolio which will make it more competitive with arch-rival Amadeus.
31/03/2010
SITA Continues to Advance in Tier 2
Press reports indicate that SITA will be the new IT provider for the merged Air India. If confirmed this will be vindication of SITA management's strategy to pursue tier two airlines and should open the door for further success in the Asian region.
10/03/2010
Lufthansa Systems Validates the AIS Enterprise Optimisation Model
A product announcement from Lufthansa Systems shows that Enterprise Optimisation may finally be arriving.
06/03/2010
Datalex Enters South America
Aero Republica has implemented an Internet booking capability in conjunction with Datalex. Despite challenges around payments processing the airline doubled its online sales in the first week and they continue to grow.
22/02/2010
Sabre's Stealthy Success at JetBlue
JetBlue cut over to Sabre and there have been no reported problems. What has gone right?
12/02/2010
Amadeus Speeds Up Migration
Recent conversions of TAM and Aegean show that Amadeus is accelerating the pace of airline migrations
12/02/2010
Royal Jordanian Selects Amadeus at the Second Attempt
On the 21st of October 2009 Amadeus announced that it had concluded a 10 year agreement to
supply its Altea passenger services suite to Royal Jordanian.
23/10/2009
A Web Site Hiccup but Westjet Blazes a Trail
WestJet cut over its Passenger Service Systems from Navitaire to Sabre over the weekend of
October 17/18 2009. On Monday 19 October the airline's web site suffered a three-hour outage
according to press reports.
23/10/2009
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