Amadeus Maintains Leading Position in E-ticketing Technology

Amadeus is playing a leading role helping airlines to meet the IATA e-ticket deadline of the end of May 2008.

Amadeus has completed over 1,400 interline agreements for airlines, meaning their passengers can purchase a single e-ticket for the entirety of a journey with multiple, pre-designated airlines. The number of interline implementations is still growing at a pace of 100 new agreements per month.

Further, now that more and more airlines are already prepared for the IATA initiative of 100 percent e-ticketing, Amadeus is also helping low cost carriers with their needs for interline electronic ticketing (IET).

WestJet and Virgin Blue have already contracted the Amadeus e-ticketing solution to prepare for their interlining agreements with full service carriers and their subsequent need for IET.