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November 10, 2010

Open Axis Group – “Who’s Asking?” – But Do Airlines Really Know?

Tweet The Open Axis Group, the not-for-profit industry organization promoting XML- based airline distribution connectivity has produced a video and whitepaper in an effort to persuade the indirect channel (TMCs, Corporate Booking Tools & GDS) to adopt their XML schema to access airline content including ancillary services. A key thrust of this effort is to allow airlines to provide more […]

October 12, 2010

Amadeus One – An IT Company- But it is Up to the TMC to Decide

Tweet During a briefing today with Amadeus they disclosed the fact that their launch customer for Amadeus One, their new Agent desktop platform is not currently an Amadeus GDS client. The Amadeus One application allows agents to use cryptic formats from any of the major GDS or a graphical user interface to create fare and availability queries. The fare and […]

July 9, 2010

GUI Finally Comes to the Agent POS

Tweet Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) were first introduced to the public with the original Apple MAC in 1984. The MAC as well as the first version of Microsoft Windows were actually based on technology developed by Xerox PARC back n the early 1980s. The GUI became mainstream with the introduction of Microsoft Windows and by the early 1990s most consumers […]

April 27, 2010

Google and ITA Software

Tweet A lot has been written about the possible acquisition of of ITA Software by Google since it first appeared in the press last week. The travel technology blogosphere has been active with all sorts of speculation. Before I give you my take on the potential $1Billion buyout, I thought I would summarize some of the current themes that have […]