Described by UBS Warburg analyst Sam Buttrick as "potentially the single most important pricing move in the past decade," America West Airlines this week dramatically altered its airfare structure, a...

In lieu of resolutions with Air France and KLM, Travelport GDS plans to absorb the €4.50 per segment fare increase the airlines are prepared to levy on Travelport global distribution system users in...

Unwilling to wait for a day that may never come when airlines put Web-only inventory into the global distribution systems Sabre and other GDSs are seeking to use Internet fare-searching software to...

Although this month's federal court decision forcing MasterCard and Visa to allow member banks to issue other cards, such as American Express and Discover, can be viewed as a victory for the likes of...

Cendant Corp. announced a number of key executive appointments in recent weeks. Steven Rudnitsky was named chairman and CEO of Cendant's hotel division, while Thomas Higgins and John Valletta each were...

Booking Vendors Update Tools By Jay Campbell In an online booking industry that continues to compete as much for attention as it does revenues, vendors again took the opportunity at the National

The strife between airlines and global distribution systems spread in recent weeks, even as the U.S. Department of Transportation's proposed GDS regulations were poised to directly impact all...

Almost half of companies use or plan to use meeting planning and sourcing technology, but most of those that do choose to use internally developed technology, often to the exclusion of external...

Europcar and Enterprise Rent-A-Car expanded a partnership to improve worldwide services, "particularly for global corporate accounts ." Building on a 2006 deal between Europcar and National...

Air France-KLM, Deutsche Lufthansa, Iberia Airlines, French hotel firm Accor and German tourism company TUI are listed on the latest Dow Jones Sustainability Index , effective Sept. 22. According to Dow...