Expands Partnership with Advertising and Business Intelligence Tools
Atlanta, 2012-10-16 — /travelprnews.com/ — Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, and Aeromexico, Mexico’s global airline, today announce a new global full content agreement. The new multi-year deal secures full access to all of Aeromexico’s published fares and seat inventory – including fares available on its website, and through its reservation offices and third parties – for all Travelport-connected travel agents and subscribers globally, including all offline travel agencies and online agencies booking through Travelport
The new agreement also includes a common framework to provide enhanced Aeromexico functionality to Travelport’s travel agents, such as the addition of merchandising services, providing Aeromexico with the ability to sell ancillary services through Travelport point of sale platforms.
Aeromexico will also subscribe to Travelport Sponsored Flights Advertising™*, an advertising tool which enables carriers to place flights in a separate area above the neutral display on the travel agent’s availability results screen for optimum visibility. This industry first solution can promote new destinations or expanded service on existing routes, market reduced or promotional fares and offer alternative airport choices.
Aeromexico will also utilize Travelport Galaxy™**, a flexible, cost-effective and reliable data processing service, used by some of the world’s leading airlines, travel agencies and travel-related companies. Galaxy processes and consolidates data from all major global distribution systems (GDSs) by assembling, cleansing, validating, netting and applying the origin-destination trip-build rules to turn the raw data (e.g., MIDT, ATCN, Revenue) into more manageable data elements.
“Through this agreement, we are pleased to provide our customers with full access to Aeromexico published fares and inventory through our Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan distribution channels,” said Dan Westbrook, vice president, Supplier Services, Travelport. “As a global network for approximately 67,000 online and offline travel agency locations, which in turn serve millions of end consumers globally, Travelport is committed to providing full content for our customers and providing cost-effective and value-added distribution to all suppliers. We are especially pleased to expand our partnership with Aeromexico to include Travelport Sponsored Flights Advertising and our Galaxy business intelligence solution.”
“Travelport is an important commercial partner for Aeromexico and we’re delighted that we’ve reached a global agreement for our agents, which provides them with access to all of our published fares and inventory,” said Sergio Allard, Aeromexico Chief Commercial Officer. “Being part of Travelport’s extensive network is a critical part of our distribution strategy to ensure our flights are available to travel agents everywhere. Travelport’s breadth, technology and merchandising capabilities will ensure we continue to have a very successful relationship for years to come.”
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*For more information on Travelport Sponsored Flights Advertising, click here: http://www.travelport.com/Products/Travelport-Sponsored-Flights
**For more information on Travelport Galaxy, click here: http://www.travelport.com/Products/Travelport-Galaxy
About Travelport (www.travelport.com)
Travelport is a broad-based business services company and a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions to companies operating in the global travel industry.
With a presence in over 170 countries, approximately 3,500 employees and 2011 net revenue of $2.0 billion, Travelport is comprised of the global distribution systems (GDS) business, which includes the Galileo and Worldspan brands and its Airline IT Solutions business.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Travelport is a privately owned company.
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About Grupo Aeromexico
Grupo Aeromexico, S.A.B. de C.V., is a holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in commercial aviation in Mexico and world-wide and the promotion of passenger loyalty programs. It has a fleet of Boeing 777, 767, 737 aircraft and the latest models of Embraer 145s and 190s. As of 2011, an important expansion plan began that includes the incorporation of 20 new planes over the next 24 months.
Grupo Aeromexico operates its main hub out of Terminal 2 in the Mexico City International Airport. The Group’s airlines operate over 550 daily flights to different cities in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Central and South America, as well as Europe and Asia.
Aeromexico is a founding member of SkyTeam, the global airline alliance comprised of the following 16 airlines: Aeroflot, Aeromexico, Air Europa, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Kenya Airways, Korean Air, Saudia, TAROM Romanian Air Transport, and Vietnam Airlines. SkyTeam offers all partner airline passengers a large global network with more destinations and frequencies, and improved connectivity. Passengers can accrue and redeem miles with the different partners’ loyalty programs and enjoy the convenience provided at 490 airport lounges worldwide. SkyTeam offers its 506 million annual passengers more than 14,731 daily flights to 958 destinations in 173 countries. www.skyteam.com
Media Contacts
Jill Brenner
Senior Director
Corporate Communications, The Americas
Travelport
jill.brenner@travelport.com
Phone: 1.973.939-1325
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