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Recorded at CAPA Americas Aviation Summit, 11-12 Apr 2016

Amadeus IT Group Update

Amadeus IT Group VP Airline Commercial John Dabkowski discusses the spread of fare families to online travel agencies.

Transcript

John Dabkowski:So I guess first of all I'd say that Amadeus as a European company is taking this data integrity very, very seriously in the way that the EU has for a long, long, long time, and we apply that whole sort of philosophy around the whole world. At the end of the day, it's the airlines, it's the airlines and their data, and we We help enable them to do what they like, but ultimately it's their data. Fare families has been a really successful initiative. I think it's one of the ways that many of the airlines and the OTAs have started to get into the bundled fares, have started to get into competing directly with the LCCs a little more and having the offer understood, right? So the beginnings of NDC and those sort of things, which we fully support, and getting very good traction. So I mean, literally good traction with the OTAs, 110 or so airlines now using the branded fares and fare family stuff very successfully.

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