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Related Newslog Items August 4, 2010 Travelport announced a two-year extension to 2013 of its "full content" participation agreement with United Airlines, and said "later this year" it would offer users the ability to book United's Economy Plus seating. Sabre began offering its users Economy Plus 18 months ago. Travelport last month announced an extension to 2013 of its agreement with Continental Airlines. August 3, 2010 Travel management company Nippon Express Travel USA signed to use a Travelport-branded version of Rearden Commerce's Personal Assistant software, Rearden and Travelport announced. Rearden and Travelport in June announced a "multi-year" partnership. "Several" leading U.S. TMCs have bought into the joint solution, which "provides corporations critical control and end-to-end spend management capabilities, while offering travelers a robust set of features and functionality comparable to top consumer Web sites," the companies said. August 3, 2010 ENett International, the payments provider majority-owned by Travelport, announced plans to launch in the fourth quarter a service fee processing application in the United States for Apollo and Worldspan users. Promising lower fees, better data, more flexibility and faster reconciliation than services provided by the Airlines Reporting Corp. and others, eNett called its feeNett product "a fully integrated payment solution that allows travel agencies to process service fees, enabled by seamless integration with desktop and back-office processes and systems." The system already is on the Australian market. Travelport announced the creation of eNett a year ago with partner PSP International. July 15, 2010 Travelport announced a "multi-year" agreement that "secures access to Avis Budget Group's rates and services" for Galileo and Worldspan users. July 8, 2010 Travelport announced a two and a half-year extension of its "full content" participation agreement with Continental Airlines, to 2013. "Continental published fares and related seat inventory, including Web fares available on its own site, reservation offices and through third parties, will continue to be available to subscribers of the Galileo and Worldspan GDS systems on the same terms as in the most recent agreement," according to a statement. June 15, 2010 Sabre Travel Network unveiled for reporters its Red "total travel agency solution," including a new graphical interface currently in testing by 250 travel agencies. Those agencies are scheduled to make a formal upgrade within the next month, while other clients will upgrade during the second half of the year, Sabre officials said. Similar to emerging solutions from competitors Amadeus, Farelogix and Travelport, Red offers new capabilities for ancillary services shopping, leverages the company's latest profiles system, includes community concepts, moves some quality-control functions to the point of sale and is both multi-source and multi-GDS, according to officials. Also incorporating mobile device integration and preferred supplier agreement support, Red would eventually replace Sabre's MySabre. June 3, 2010 Travelport and Rearden Commerce announced a "multi-year partnership that will result in delivery of a combined travel, procurement and expense management solution for travel management companies, existing corporate customers, and corporations in the United States and Canada." Travelport would offer the Rearden product and also continue providing its "flagship" Traversa corporate booking tool as part of what the company called a "new approach." According to its statement, "The addition of Rearden Commerce to Travelport's portfolio ensures corporations can benefit from both the depth and breadth of Travelport GDS content, along with the industry’s best solutions to manage travel and traditionally overlooked areas of spend." May 18, 2010 Travelport acquired travel search engine Sprice.com to provide Galileo and Worldspan-connected agencies access to 240,000 international hotel properties, reviews and merchandising options. Singapore-based Sprice includes comparison shopping features and such content as "parking, events and attractions and dining," according to Travelport. May 11, 2010 Several travel management companies, travel distributors and airlines announced they have "agreed to support common technology approaches for the merchandising of airline ancillary services." Those listed on a joint press release included corporate TMCs American Express Business Travel, BCD Travel, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Egencia, HRG, Orbitz for Business and Travelocity Business, and global distribution system operators Amadeus, Sabre Travel Network and Travelport. They each expressed support for both the Airline Tariff Publishing Company's optional services fare filing capabilities and the industry standard Electronic Miscellaneous Document. According to the joint statement, "the GDSs plan to provide corporations and travel agencies the ability to shop, book and fulfill airline ancillary services to travelers by late 2010." Air New Zealand, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Lan and WestJet also were listed in the announcement as supporting these developments as "an option" for distributing products and services. American Airlines previously told The Beat that for its unbundling plans and direct connect initiative, it plans to implement EMDs but does not need ATPCo specifications. An AirTran Airways executive recently said that implementing EMDs is "something we don't want to do" because for the carrier's business model, some standards "don't make sense." May 11, 2010 Travelport announced a deal with WorldMate to offer mobile technology to travel management companies and corporate travelers in the United States and Canada. In addition to real-time travel updates, alerts and other mobile travel services, the arrangement will enable TMCs to "private-label the application and provide special features, including direct click-to-call, which offers customers a simple way to connect to their designated travel representative," first via Blackberry devices and "soon" with iPhones and Nokia devices, according to Travelport. WorldMate CEO Jean Tripier said the deal will provide "real-time information and transactional capabilities that were never seen before on a smartphone." May 6, 2010 Travelport March quarter revenue increased 5 percent to $581 million, thanks to 6 percent higher GDS segments, but the company reported a net loss of $21 million.
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