Travelport confirmed that HRG signed a "global agreement" for use of its Universal API

, which would enable the travel management company to access "additional content from low-cost carriers and high-speed rail providers as a complement to core GDS content." Travelport currently is globally rolling out the application programming interface. It is built to aggregate content from Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan, as well as Sprice for hotel content and Travelport's air and rail content hubs, including feeds from the likes of easyJet and Deutsche Bahn, respectively. Travelport in November announced that the API also would be used to access Southwest Airlines content. According to a statement attributed to Hogg Robinson Group distribution and technology director Bill Brindle, "By coding to one single solution instead of multiple APIs, HRG has quickly gained easy access to extensive new content."