GDSs come under growing pressure to handle unbundled airline services Dan Luzadder The GDSs that perform trillions of computer tasks each day to put travelers in airline seats, hotel rooms or rental ...

At a time when base commissions have hit zero, amid the undeniable trend pushing the point of sale away from the cryptic global distribution system interfaces and toward the Internet, the next ...

Travel managers attending Wednesday's meeting in Washington are running out of patience. They’ve been waiting for years for the airlines and the GDSs to figure out how to let them comparison shop for ...

Boeing subsidiary Tapestry Solutions has been awarded a contract to sustain and modernise the US Air Force’s Global Decision Support System (GDSS). GDSS is the principal C2 software platform that ...

Open systems, along with enhanced user interfaces, similarly allow GDSs to display more robust hotel information, including enhanced descriptions of services and amenities and such visual elements as ...

When the first global distribution systems (GDS), such as American Airlines Inc.’s Sabre, came on the scene, they pioneered the use of computers in large-scale commercial applications and the ...

Having one person at your company make all the decisions is simpler, but not necessarily better than having a larger pool complete the task. Group decisions, whether by consensus or majority vote, can ...

The latest round, a move by Air Canada to withhold some of its most attractive fares from the GDSs and so from corporate travel departments, comes as the industry is still trying to digest an ...