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American Blows Up Its Sales Team, Launches a Risky War Against Corporate Accounts and Travel Sellers
American has decided that the way it sells travel through third parties and to companies in general is broken, and it has…
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The Unlikely Union of Sabre and Farelogix
Let’s take a trip way back to February 2013. Right around the time that the American and US Airways merger was announced,…
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3 Links I Love: Sabre Warms to NDC, OneJet and WOW Air Face Trouble
This week’s featured link: Sabre Agrees to Pilot New Technologies With American Airlines and Other Travel Giants – Skift Distribution-giant Sabre spent…
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American Shuns Sticks, Tries Carrots to Woo Agencies Toward a Better Way of Booking
American rolled out a major new program on Friday that’s intended to encourage travel agencies/travel management companies to start booking flights differently…
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One Step Closer to a Better Way to Sell Airline Tickets
As you know, I was in Dublin last week for the CAPA Airlines in Transition conference. But it was Travelport that brought…
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Why Changes in Airline Distribution Take So Long – A Look at What the Players Stand to Gain and Lose
Welcome back to the last post of Distribution Week here on The Cranky Flier. I know I’m getting really wonky here, and…
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A Vision of How Some Airlines Want to Sell You Tickets
It’s Distribution Week here on The Cranky Flier. Yesterday I wrote a brief history of how airlines sell tickets. Today it’s time…
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A Brief History of How Airlines Sell Tickets
Welcome to “Distribution Week” here on The Cranky Flier. Today I’m looking at a brief history of how airlines sell their tickets,…