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Will American Airlines make travel agents, corporations pay for content?
If you believe the Business Travel Coalition and industry rumblings, American Airlines is serious about proceeding with plans to make users — presumably travel management companies, corporations and...
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Fear and loathing in the airline industry, innovation on hold?
Innovation vs scaremongering – airline direct connects will cause warts It is no secret that one of the most powerful ways to influence individual and societal behavior is fear. Just turn on the...
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Set phasers to stun – Davidson accused of warped logix about airline industry
For a guy who runs a company called Farelogix, Jim Davidson offers precious little logic about fares in his recent commentary, in which he dismisses BTC’s and its allies efforts to promote full...
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Farelogix row – US travel agent group wades in, suggests airlines also guilty
The irony of this piece is that it starts and ends with the very concept it complains about – using fear as a tactic. Davidson is a bright and talented entrepreneur who believes deeply in the power of...
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Corporations, agencies back airline merchandising, but distribution is...
The Business Travel Coalition and the American Society of Travel Agents got more than 200 corporations and travel management companies to back airline efforts to collect fees for checked bags and...
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So who is right in the airline merchandising row?
I have been watching and biting my tongue all week at the somewhat personal vitriol coming from BTC. I feel qualified to speak since one of my posts was widely quoted in the formal letter from BTC to...
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A curious riddle hidden inside the Hidden Fees campaign
The noise against fees seems to have reached a crescendo with a concerted campaign in the USA around ancillary services. However, a closer examination reveals that the basis of the anti fee coalition’s...
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Why Trusted Traveler initiative is doomed to failure
NB: This is a guest post article by Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition. Because of controversies surrounding more aggressive airport security pat-down procedures and full-body...
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Open Allies for Airfare Transparency: Full list of members
Much of the official launch of the anti-Direct Connect group, Open Allies for Airfare Transparency, was always going to be about which companies would join. The list of participants in the group (its...
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The evolution of the GDS model
Many travellers – and perhaps many in the industry – must be confused and somewhat bemused by the current arcane disputes over distribution costs. But to what extent has the GDS model benefited the...
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Technology is NOT the barrier to accessing airline ancillary products
NB: This is a guest article by Joseph Rubin, president of the Interactive Travel Services Association. There has been a recent uptick in talk around increased costs associated with flying, and about...
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A US e-petition questions airlines’ ancillary sales practices, and UK...
Yesterday, Nov. 26, the American Business Travel Coalition launched an online petition requesting that the US Transportation Department (DOT) mandate that all airlines provide all of their optional...
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IATA strikes back at Business Travel Coalition over the NDC
NB: This is a viewpoint from The International Air Transport Association (IATA), in response to a document circulated by the Business Travel Coalition, and which is asking Transportation Secretary Ray...
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