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Three GDS, Three Payment Strategies: Why Travelport Won’t Own the Money It Moves

July 31, 2026

On Sabre’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CEO Kurt Ekert described the company’s ambition in the payments space plainly. Sabre, he said, is focused on acting mainly as an orchestration layer

NDC Was Never About Going Direct. The Market Is Finally Proving It.

July 31, 2026

For almost a decade, the airline industry has treated NDC and direct distribution as if they were the same strategy. They never were. NDC became shorthand for a bigger idea,

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