Better Information for Better Decisions
Welcome to the T2RL site for the airline IT market. T2RL aim to provide a consistent view of the market for airlines' information technology. This enables airlines to make informed decisions when selecting solutions to their technology requirements. It allows solutions vendors to understand the dynamics of the market and their competitive position within it and investors to evaluate opportunities for providing capital to the industry. | The data you will find here is the result of over a decade's research into the market by the principals of T2RL. It is derived from published sources and direct primary research that we have carried out since 1999 and continue to carry out in the course of our work with airlines, IT vendors and investors. Most of this site is available by subscription only. If you do not have a login please contact us directly. |
Latest Updates
Global Recovery -
Following the devastating effect of the pandemic T2RL are providing ongoing research into the impact on airlines and their vendors.
There are some strong signs of a robust recovery. T2RL track the individual and overall impact of the pandemic week by week with analysis of the World's top 50 airlines. Global Trends | Region Trends | Traffic Impact | USA | Europe | Reports | Closures | Closure Impact |
Latest: T2RL's research highlights 4.63 billion passengers in 2019, that drops to 1.85 billion in 2020, 2.35 billion for 2021 and 3.32 billion in 2022. New: NDC Vendors, NDC Market Share and GDS NDC Agreements New IBE Migrations | |
In the year 2020 T2RL recorded:
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T2RL Conferences
T2RL Engage 2022 and 2023
T2RLEngage 2022 welcomed over 50 airlines to London for the first face to face conference for T2RL since 2019. If you were able to join us, all of the sessions will be available to view via the online conference app. Otherwise, we will be releasing some sessions as webinars over the next few weeks. ![]() What's in t2rl.net?
The T2RL Database and Business Models
What is it?
The backbone of our analysis is an industry database of virtually all airlines, vendors, relationships, contracts, distribution, passenger activity, airline e-commerce and related statistics. We use this data for our own analysis and for producing charts and easy to understand dynamic graphics. Additionally we give the subscribers the ability to drill into the data to do their own analysis and reporting.
Startups
![]() New airlines are starting up all the time. Despite frequently being unable to return the cost of capital there are investors willing to fund new airline ventures. We list startups by region, country, city, principle hub, website, fleet, routes, business model, planned operational date, investors and AOC where the information is available. Franchise Adjustments and Market Share Reporting
![]() Reporting on the airline industry is a very challenging activity. Reporting on the supply of IT services to the industry just adds to the complications. At T2RL we have a well-established process to ensure that we track numbers that are consistent and provide an accurate representation of the state of the industries we follow. Application Section
![]() Graphical representation of the airline passenger application architecture. The information documents and identifies the relationships between reservations, operational systems, revenue integrity, customer data, revenue management, accounting and business intelligence.
Distribution
![]() Graphical and statistical views of global distribution channels of airlines by channel showing timeline growth. We work through a combination of publicly available data and our own sources to develop a perspective on where these passengers are sold and the split between direct and indirect channels. We focus on gathering information about seat sales made via airline's websites, call-centres, direct connect channels, host direct and GDS. T2RL also track the NDC (New Distribution Capability) GDS agreements each airline has signed. |
Contract Analysis
![]() In the contracts section you can see which airlines are using which PSS products, and most interestingly the known expiry date of the contracts. By filtering this data by year and by airline size we are able to list the upcoming addressable market for each product over the next 16 years. This is a premium product. Please contact us for more details. Airlines Section
![]() Drill down into airline detail, passenger traffic, business model, system vendors and contracts for commercial and operations. Search and filter by name, code, tier, region, country, business model, passenger numbers, Alliance status and software.
Vendor Section
![]() A unique perspective on the key systems vendors including ownership, customers, market share, platforms, functionality, history, analysis and outlook.
Charts New interactive chart are added to the portal every month
![]() Market Share Reports
![]() The Reports section delivers the latest calculations of the market shares of the vendors for PSS and other commercial and operations products. Users can filter results by product, region, country, passenger volume tier and passenger numbers.
Insight
![]() As well as capturing data, T2RL is engaged with analysing and understanding what those data represent. The Market Insights section contains the latest publications from T2RL Analysts on the development of the Airlines IT services industry.
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If annual subscription isn’t suitable for you then individual reports are available to purchase starting from £5000 (ex.vat) t2rl.com There are also several reports and report summaries that are free of charge. |