TAM and Amadeus announced a 10-year technology partnership to equip TAM with a new generation passenger service system. Amadeus will replace multiple legacy applications currently used by TAM, with a single integrated platform based on the Amadeus Altéa Customer Management Solution.
Travelport GDS announced an agreement to jointly deliver an integrated expense management and booking solution that combines IBM’s Global Expense Reporting Solutions (GERS) with the capability to integrate all Travelport GDS bookings. This agreement brings to Travelport and IBM customers an expense management solution with integrated travel booking data regardless of how the transaction was booked.
Starwood Preferred Guest is the first and only hotel loyalty program to offer members flight redemption on more than 350 airlines with no black-outs. And now, SPG announces the launch of an enhanced website that features new online search and redemption options to make booking flights even easier.
Hickory Travel Systems and eTravCo announced the formation of a worldwide travel agent network that will be a market-leading travel service provider based on Hickory Travel System’s corporate travel services and eTravCo’s leisure travel consortium.
LAN Airline has launched LAN for Business, a new online booking engine designed to allow small and medium businesses to purchase and reserve airline tickets with a few easy clicks. This tool has been specifically created to satisfy the administrative and management expectations when booking business travel.
Passengers traveling on Virgin Atlantic, one of the world’s leading long-haul airlines, can now book Eurostar tickets for onward high-speed journeys between London, Paris and Brussels. Virgin Atlantic is the first airline in the world to implement an e-ticketing agreement with Eurostar, enabling passengers to travel seamlessly between London and Paris or Brussels.