Saturday, September 25, 2004

GDS alternative eyefortravel.com -

eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "By Jay Campbell, Founder of The Beat - A Business Travel Newswire "...

"ITA Software by year-end will produce an alternative to the global distribution systems, executives with ITA and United Airlines revealed Wednesday
"Those who don't have direct connect strategies had better get them," said Timothy O'Neil-Dunne, managing partner with travel e-commerce consulting firm T2Impact. He then called the people sitting in the major GDS companies' headquarters "an endangered species."

GDS firms have been hearing such judgements for years, but the major network carriers have never before been so desperate to alter their business models.

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