Ask who is winning GDS in Africa and the industry gives you one answer: Amadeus, because it is “stronger in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.” That line appears in
Three months after Sabre first accused Amadeus of holding a “dominant monopoly position,” the company used its Q2 2026 earnings call to restate the complaint in more specific terms, but
Every airline distribution team evaluating NDC aggregators eventually has the same thought. What if there were just one. One contract, one integration, one commercial relationship covering every agency, every OTA,
At UATP’s Airline Distribution 2026 conference this year, United’s managing director of digital sales told the room that the carrier now sells about seventy percent of its tickets direct, with
Accelya just put a number on something buyers have been guessing at for years: how ready their own programme actually is for modern airline retailing. The company unveiled the Modern
For nearly three decades Emirates and South African Airways have run a codeshare that only worked in one direction. SAA put its code on Emirates metal into Johannesburg, Cape Town,
The association’s new Airline Payment Framework puts numbers to something the industry has known for years. Whether African carriers act on it is a different question entirely. IATA published a
Emirates, Etihad, flydubai and Air Arabia are running four different distribution strategies out of the same airport system. The gaps between them say more about where this industry is headed
Travelport and EGYPTAIR have signed a long-term distribution agreement covering both EDIFACT and NDC content. Travelport-connected agencies will keep their existing access to EGYPTAIR through established EDIFACT channels, while gaining
Amadeus closed the first half of 2026 with the kind of headline numbers that read fine on a shareholder call, group revenue up 5.1% at constant currency, adjusted EBIT up
