GDSs come under growing pressure to handle unbundled airline services Dan Luzadder The GDSs that perform trillions of computer tasks each day to put travelers in airline seats, hotel rooms or rental ...

At a time when base commissions have hit zero, amid the undeniable trend pushing the point of sale away from the cryptic global distribution system interfaces and toward the Internet, the next ...

Leaders of the Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre NDC teams talk about implementation during ARC's Travel Connect conference. Photo Credit: Chuck Fazio LEESBURG, Virginia -- The three major GDSs are ...

Open systems, along with enhanced user interfaces, similarly allow GDSs to display more robust hotel information, including enhanced descriptions of services and amenities and such visual elements as ...

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 ...

When the first global distribution systems (GDS), such as American Airlines Inc.’s Sabre, came on the scene, they pioneered the use of computers in large-scale commercial applications and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having one person at your company make all the decisions is simpler, but not necessarily better than having a larger pool complete the task. Group decisions, whether by consensus or majority vote, can ...