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ARC: Sept. Monthly Agency Air Ticket Sales Surpass $1B, First Time Since MarchBy Dawit Habtemariam

Total air tickets sold in September by U.S.-based travel agencies reached $1.2 billion, the first time sales surpassed $1 billion since March 2020,... KEEP READING

ATPCO CEO Purzer to Retire at Year-EndBy Michael B. Baker

ATPCO president and CEO Rolf Purzer, who has been a driving force for modernization of the 55-year-old airfare data management company, will retire at... KEEP READING

CWT Meetings & Events Adds Global Direct-Booking Platform for Small MeetingsBy Donna M. Airoldi

CWT Meetings & Events, via a partnership with meeting-booking platform MeetingPackage, has introduced a global direct-booking platform for small... KEEP READING

Short's Adds Deem as Latest Third-Party OBT OptionBy Adam Perrotta

Weeks after unveiling plans to sunset its in-house online booking tool, Short's Travel Management has announced it will offer Deem as an OBT option to... KEEP READING

Hahn Air Brings Six Carriers to GDSsBy Michael B. Baker

Hahn Air has signed agreements with six new carriers over the past few months to make their content available through global distribution systems.... KEEP READING

ATPCO Develops Standardized Data Format for Detailing Airline Covid-19 ProtocolsBy Michael B. Baker

ATPCO has developed a new data format designed to help travelers more easily to see and compare airlines' pandemic-related protocols when flight... KEEP READING

Southwest Content Goes Live in AmadeusBy Michael B. Baker

Southwest Airlines' content now is available for corporate bookings on the Amadeus Travel Platform, the carrier and global distribution system provider... KEEP READING

CTM, T&T Deal Highlights Consolidation Possibilities in a Changing MarketBy Chris Davis

The planned $200.4 million acquisition of travel management company Travel and Transport by Australian TMC Corporate Travel Management, once closed,... KEEP READING

Traxo Signs Two U.K. Agency Consortia DealsBy Mark Frary

Traxo on Thursday announced deals with the U.K.'s Advantage Travel Partnership and Win Global Travel Network to allow the consortia to offer their... KEEP READING

Short's to Sunset OBT, Switch to UpsideBy Adam Perrotta

Upside Business Travel continues making inroads into the TMC distribution channel, signing up Short's Travel Management to sell a private-label version... KEEP READING

Australia's CTM to Buy U.S. TMC Travel and TransportBy Chris Davis

Australian travel management company Corporate Travel Management has agreed to purchase U.S. TMC Travel & Transport for US$200.4 million, the companies... KEEP READING

Singapore Airlines to Bring NDC Program to U.S. in MarchBy Michael B. Baker

Singapore Airlines will expand its New Distribution Capability-based KrisConnect Program to the United States in March 2021, the carrier announced.... KEEP READING

Booking Platform Hotel Engine Adds Execs on Expansion Path

Hotel Engine, a no-contract, free-to-use corporate travel booking and management platform that raised $16 million in funding last fall, celebrated its... KEEP READING

Iberia Providing NDC Content to Spanish Agency Via ThomalexBy Michael B. Baker

Agency booking platform Thomalex is providing Iberia's New Distribution Capability content to corporate customers of Spanish agency Día Libre... KEEP READING

Pandemic Not Displacing NDC as Amadeus Priority

Amadeus this month announced a commercial agreement with Air France-KLM in which it will be an aggregator of the airline group's New Distribution... KEEP READING

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