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The Pandemic has been Hardest for Amadeus but it Remains Dominant
The migration of GOL from Amadeus Navitaire to Sabre is the first PSS move of any airline in the top three tiers this year and is the largest airline migration since the pandemic hit 18 months ago. This First View looks at the future strategy of the top three PSS vendors; Amadeus, Sabre and TravelSky and their outlook after the pandemic.
22/09/2021

Etihad to implement Amadeus Altea
Etihad have signed a deal with Amadeus to implement its Altea PSS platform, as well as its new version IBE, mobile app, revenue management and merchandising platform. Etihad, who flew over 17 million pbs pre-Covid, is expected to migrate in 2022. This is not the first time that Etihad has used the Amadeus system, having originally migrated from Amadeus Altea to Sabre in 2013. Etihad flew just over 4 million pbs in 2020 but is showing signs of recovery as travel restrictions are being lifted.
14/09/2021

Sabre migrates GOL to its SabreSonic PSS
Sabre has migrated Brazilian airline GOL from Navitaire in a deal worth over 36 million passengers boarded (pbs). The airline processed over 16 million pbs in 2020. GOL is currently the largest airline in Latin America and pushes Sabre's market share in the region to over 46%, more than double its nearest competitor. GOL is now Sabre's 3rd largest customer overall and will play a significant part in its recovery after the pandemic.
13/09/2021

The Uneven Recovery from COVID - T2RL's Outlook
This is the fifth edition of T2RL's analysis on the market recovery for the airline industry during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines the impact of the Delta variant plus vaccine rollout and government strategies on international travel. T2RL details recommendations for airlines on IT contracting, distribution and technology.
31/08/2021

Kambr partners with Navitaire
Kambr, a newcomer to the revenue management market, has announced a partnership with PSS provider Navitaire. It is unsurprising given both parties specifically target the LCC market and comes after Kambr migrated AirAsia, one of Navitaire's largest customers, to their RM software earlier this year. The partnership intends to facilitate smoother data integration between the two platforms. The announcement will be a particular concern to Accelya who currently holds over 60% of the market in the LCC RM space with many of these airlines being Navitaire PSS customers.
13/07/2021

A Strategic Year for Hitit
Hitit has recently announced it is gearing up for an IPO in the near future. In what has been a turbulent year for the industry, this First View explores Hitit's activities in the past year.
07/07/2021

Hitit to IPO
Pegasus Airlines in Turkey have announced that they are exploring the opportunity to sell some or all of their stake in an initial public offering. Hitit have benefitted the most from SITA's exit from the PSS business in terms of number of new airline customers. T2RL's view is that Hitit is one of the key challengers to the market leaders, Amadeus and Sabre. An IPO will be likely to generate significant interest given Hitit's market position and potential. Hitit's performance during T2RL's RFP processes has been outstanding with a recent win at Royal Brunei.
02/07/2021

2020 Global Passenger Volumes: 1.84 Billion
T2RL has released its assessment of 2020 global passenger volumes showing 1.84 Billion passengers boarded - a 60% decline from 2019's 4.63 billion. This first view includes significant highlights from our 2020 passenger volumes and the impact on passengers boarded by the three largest PSS vendors - Amadeus, Sabre & TravelSky.
17/06/2021

IBS - Leading the Way in Loyalty
IBS has announced that Gulf Air has chosen its iFly Loyalty solution to power its Falconflyer Loyalty programme. This the latest in a string of signings the loyalty vendor has in the pipe. This First View looks at why things are heating up in the loyalty space.
14/04/2021

Travelling in a COVID World
This is the fourth edition of T2RL's analysis on the market recovery for the airline industry during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The world is a very different place today than it was this time last year, and even more dramatically different from 2019. It is also now apparent that some of the changes seen in the past year are here to stay for quite some time. This report examines the impact of the vaccine rollout on international travel and effects the current climate is having on airline IT contracting, distribution and technology.
14/04/2021

Outsourcing - One Step Beyond
Amadeus have announced a wide-ranging partnership with Microsoft which will see some or all of its applications moving to the Cloud. This comes a year after Sabre's announcement with Google's cloud hosting. This First View looks at the implications for airlines of these leading IT vendors outsourcing their data hosting.
30/03/2021

Kambr Win Shakes up the RM Market
Kambr, a recent start-up in the revenue management field has won the business of AirAsia, one of the giants of the LCC world.
09/03/2021

TravelSky jumps into second place in the projected 2020 PSS market share table
TravelSky currently holds 20% of the PSS market placing them in second position up from fourth and 14% in 2019. The Chinese based PSS provider has overtaken Sabre and Navitaire in the T2RL PSS market share table and is now only 2% behind leaders Amadeus reflecting the quick recovery of Chinese carriers during 2020. For more details see the T2RL report section.
12/01/2021

Jeju sign with Amadeus Navitaire PSS
Jeju Air has signed with Navitaire for their New Skies PSS and is expected to migrate from SITA later in 2021. Jeju processed over 13 million PBs in 2019 and is predicted to process just over 7 million in 2020. SITA will be retiring their PSS in 2022 and T2RL currently record over 30 airlines still needing to migrate from the platform.
15/12/2020

Transition to the new Norm - T2RL's Outlook
This is the third edition of T2RL's analysis on the market recovery for the airline industry during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This report focuses on the general market for airline services after the announcement of viable vaccines and the impact we expect this to have on air travel, airline distribution and airline technology.


15/12/2020

Interline in the Modern World
Existing interline standards have served the industry well since they were defined in 1947 but they have significant gaps in the modern world. This paper delves into the history of interline and how and why it is set to change in the near future.


15/12/2020

Blue Air Extends Partnership with Navitaire
Blue Air has reversed their decision in migrating to Hitit earlier in the year and has extended their agreement with Navitaire. Blue Air, who were a long-standing customer of Navitaire for over 10 years, processed 4.2 million PBs in 2019. T2RL is of the understanding that the airline has recently undergone changes to their workforce and shareholders and as they were considered being in financial difficulty before the coronavirus outbreak, needed to meet strict criteria to receive a limited 62 million euro government-backed rescue loan. The airline started flying again in July after being suspended for more than three months and intend on focusing on an ultra-low-cost self-service strategy flying into large European airports from Bucharest.
25/11/2020

ATPCO CEO Rolf Purzer to retire and technology savvy Alex Zoghlin founder of G2 Switchworks and Orbitz to take over.
T2RL have been waiting for the news on the new CEO of ATPCO for some time. Rolf Purzer led the transformation of the company from fare re-distributor to positioning ATPCO such that it remains relevant in direct and indirect airline marketing and retailing through the acquisition of Route Happy and support for new techniques in revenue management. Alex Zoghlin was a founder of G2 Switchworks and Orbitz. Both companies were a little ahead of their time in terms of business model and technology. Zoghlin is truly a savvy technologist that intimately understands the challenges and constraints of the airline industry. This is a great hire by the board at ATPCO led by the Chairman and industry veteran Jerry Foran from British Airways.
15/10/2020

Hitit signs its first US airline
Hitit has signed its first airline based in the US. Contour Airlines an ex-SITA customer will cutover in November undertaking a remote migration to Hitit's PSS, Loyalty, Operations and Revenue Accounts platforms. The relationship with Contour, who interline with American Airlines, should help Hitit open the doors to other US-based regional airlines.
06/10/2020

Surviving and Recovering from Major Disruption - T2RL's Outlook
This is the second edition of T2RL's analysis on the market recovery for the airline industry during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This report focuses on the general market for airline services, the effect this may have on airline distribution and the GDS market and the potential impact on technology changes including NDC and ONE Order.

T2RL will update this document on a quarterly basis as new information and developments become apparent. The next edition is scheduled for December.
02/09/2020


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