Airlines

Airlines: Don’t crowd the inbox

  Ancillary revenue guru IdeaWorks has taken a detailed look at six airlines post-booking email marketing efforts and suggests that “simplicity can be a virtue”. Last December it made one-way […]

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That New Hotel Charge You Really Hate? It’s Here To Stay

  The hotel industry considered whom it most admired. The answer was: the airline industry. Yes, that wily cartel of misbegotten nickelers and dimers who delight in making planes narrower, […]

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Travelport enjoys hotel booking role and payment IT growth

  Travelport hopes to strengthen its position as one of the leading hotel distributors after seeing its total number of booked room nights increased to 65 million in 2015. The company has […]

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6 ways to bring precision to Revenue Management

  NB: This is an article by Tom Bacon for Eye for Travel Today it is possible to cut the data in so many different ways, but now is the […]

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Tripadvisor airline reviews to change airline marketing

  NB: This is an article by Shashank Nigam, CEO of SimpliFlying When was the last time you booked a hotel without reading a TripAdvisor review? 93% of travelers say that […]

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Digital Commerce and API First

  NB: This is an article by Brian Collins, Director of Product Development and Diarmuid O’Grady, Director Product Enablement of Datalex Digital commerce is steadily becoming the primary enterprise system […]

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Airline APIs can help hotels secure more direct revenues

  NB: This is an article by Mystifly Hotels will be aware that, dollar for dollar, it is easier to get additional revenues from existing customers than it is to […]

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Lufthansa dismisses turn against distribution surcharge

  Lufthansa claims it has not seen any bookings going the way of rival carriers despite a survey of agencies in Germany pointing to a major switch in recent months. The German […]

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3 things Expedia learnt from analyzing airfare data

  Expedia, the travel technology giant, has analyzed its trove of data to identify key trends in air travel. The data was consolidated primarily from the Airlines Reporting Corporation, with […]

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Airline system look-to-book ratios soar

  Back in the good old days, say around 20 years ago, airline systems had a 10:1 ratio of searches to actual bookings. Fast forward to 2015 and a metric […]

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