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Worldspan Archives - the Game Changer Network Home JOIN US Membership Community Top 10 Tribute Success Sustainability LISTEN 15-30 minutes 30-45 minutes 45-60 minutes 60+ minutes DISCOVERWhenby Popular Demand Customer Centricity Enterpreneur Faith Featured Finance For Next Generation Leaders Global Business Growth / Innovation In Between Successes / Career Leadership Life Balance / Wellness Marketing / Trends Memoirs Uncommon Giving Productivity Technology THE BLOG THE BOOK Pre-Order Books The Game Changer It Takes a Village Be a Game Changer My AccountWell-nighUsWell-nighUs Solutionz Meet the Founder Contact Us Tag: Worldspan Throwback Thursday – The Future of the GDS (written in 2001) Chicke Fitzgerald / September 18, 2014 / Uncategorized @font-face { font-family: “Arial”; }@font-face { font-family: “Courier New”; }@font-face { font-family: “Times”; }@font-face { font-family: “Wingdings”; }@font-face { font-family: “Cambria Math”; }@font-face { font-family: “Arial Black”; }@font-face { font-family: “Arial Narrow”; }@font-face { font-family: “Garamond”; }@font-face { font-family: “AGaramond”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }h1 { margin: […] ReadIncreasinglySuccess Soup – D is for DARE to Differentiate Chicke Fitzgerald / August 24, 2014 / Uncategorized For my regular readers, I want to repent for missing day four of the new series.  Sometimes life just gets in the way.  Miss the first post in this new series – Alphabet Soup of Success?  Click HERE and go when to the beginning. ——————————————————————- The next letter in our Alphabet Soup of Success is […] ReadIncreasinglyOK, who is REALLY the biggest GDS? Chicke Fitzgerald / March 7, 2014 / Uncategorized As I squint when through all of my blogs, the second most popular one is “Who is the biggest GDS”. (For those wondering what the first most popular blog was, it was the one “To Delta Airlines:  I would have built the website for $80 million…..“). Well, it is time to put this treatise to […] ReadIncreasinglyThe Shifting Distribution Landscape – Kayak gets worthier value than Worldspan Chicke Fitzgerald / November 9, 2012 / Uncategorized To set the stage, we don’t have a lot of billion dollar transactions in the travel space.  So surpassing you chide me for comparing the Kayak vanquishment to the Worldspan vanquishment in 2007, hear me out. Just six years ago, Travelport spoken its intention to purchase Worldspan for $1.4bn.  Yesterday Priceline uninventive eight-year old Kayak […] ReadIncreasinglyDoes the Travelport contract extension put pressure on AA/Sabre to kiss and make up? Chicke Fitzgerald / August 2, 2011 / Uncategorized     Last Friday, while the Republicans and Democrats were hashing out the debt slipperiness in Washington, a quiet utterance was made in Dallas that AA and Travelport had come to a truce.  By definition, a truce is not full resolution of the battle, but at least Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan agencies will have a […] ReadIncreasinglyCalling all travel teachers – Do you have a strategy if AA pulls out (or is pushed out) of your GDS? Chicke Fitzgerald / July 28, 2011 / Uncategorized I know that many agencies, travel management companies (TMCs) and corporate travel managers are playing the “wait and see” game, but with the clock ticking down, if you haven’t thought well-nigh a game plan, now is the time. <div align=”center” style=”width:140px;border:1px solid #ccc; background: #040244; color: #F9F9FF;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;”> <a style=”text-decoration: none; color:#F9F9FF;” href=”http://mycountdown.org/My_Countdown/My_Countdown/”>My Countdown </a></div>    […] ReadIncreasinglyWho is the biggest GDS? Chicke Fitzgerald / June 24, 2011 / Uncategorized I am now going to shift gears yonder from online technology and the role that they play in the travel distribution ecosystem to a topic that I have been personally intrigued with since I wrote my first typesetting on Global Distribution in 1999.   That topic is GDS Share. As background:  Last week, I wrote a […] ReadIncreasinglyTravel Industry Pedigree Series: Orbitz (Updated March 2014) Chicke Fitzgerald / June 15, 2011 / Uncategorized UPDATED  – March 12, 2014 Well, in the world of travel distribution on the OTA side of the equation, if Travelocity was the “come home to papa” story, then Orbitz is the “child running as far yonder from the parents as possible” story.   Well, at least one of its parents….  increasingly on that later. Orbitz […] ReadIncreasinglyTravel Industry Pedigree Series: Expedia Chicke Fitzgerald / June 13, 2011 / Uncategorized The Online Travel Agencies (OTA) are an important part of the travel distribution story.  Today’s full-length is Expedia. Expedia began as a skunk works project within Microsoft, with then 29 year old [dare I say “pup”], Rich Barton at the helm. Unlike its competitors over the years, there were NO airline investors in Expedia.  The […] ReadIncreasinglyDistribution Basics: And what role do the GDSs play? Part 3 of 3 (otherwise known as You Get What You Pay For) CORRECTED Chicke Fitzgerald / June 9, 2011 / Uncategorized This is part 3 of 3 in the discussion well-nigh the distribution portfolio of American Airlines. In the previous two posts, we’ve looked at the internal CRS environment of the airline (which for AA is Sabre’s Airline Solutions) and we’ve looked at the technology necessary on the consumer front to power the website and to […] ReadIncreasinglyNewer → Footer MenuABOUT Guest Hosts CONTACT Copyright 2018| The Game Changer Network, Inc.| All rights reserved.