:: Travel Weekly - The National Newspaper of the Travel Industry :::: Travel Weekly - The National Newspaper of the Travel Industry ::: "two major U.S. airlines -- Delta and Continental -- revealed last week that they don�t expect to renew their fare-access deals with the GDSs when the agreements expire.
Most airlines have signed such deals and are locked in until at least late 2005 or sometime in 2006. By deciding not to renew, they could free themselves for a return to the days of Web-only fares or other distribution strategies currently precluded by the contracts....
None of the GDSs detailed what they would do if airlines don’t renew their Web-fare pacts.
“We’re committed to maintaining the level of content we have for our customers, and we’ll continue to work closely with airlines to do so, as we did with DCA 3,” said a Sabre spokesman.
Cendant, parent of Galileo, expressed a similar commitment.“We expect changes to be evolutionary, not revolutionary, and [expect] more customized relationships with suppliers,” said Ken Esterow, executive vice president of supplier services for Cendant Travel Distribution Services.
A spokeswoman for Amadeus North America, which has Web-fare pacts with Continental and Northwest but not Delta, said its competitors’ “one-size-fits-all approach” was a short-term fix. "
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