Amadeus begins powering next-gen airline selling via online agencies

Many airlines have unbundled plane tickets to sell a range of extras, such as early check-ins and Wi-Fi access, on their websites. But they’ve struggled to persuade travel agencies and tech vendors to sell their fares and extras in similar ways. But airlines now want online travel agencies to get with the program. Case in point is Travix, an online travel agency group owned by BCD. This month, consumers at all of Travix’s brands began seeing and booking air content powered by the modern technical standards airlines prefer. Content from 16 airlines have been integrated into the back-end within the computers at Amadeus. By the end of the year, Amadeus expects to release the first version of this API that online travel agencies can use to access what Travix has now. <br/>