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TAP Air Portugal Signs Full Content Agreement With Travelport GDS
Langley, UK,
03.12.2008
Travelport GDS, one of the world’s leading global distribution systems (GDS) providers, has today announced a new, full content agreement with TAP Air Portugal (“TAP”) providing all Galileo and Worldspan-connected travel agents worldwide with access to all of the airline’s published fares and inventory, including its web only fares.
The new, multi-year agreement with the Portuguese flag carrier, which operates routes across Europe and globally to North and South America, takes immediate effect. In addition to the full content, Travelport GDS and TAP will be working together to explore ways to grow sales in markets across Africa as well as in France, Italy and Brazil.
Matthew Hall, Travelport GDS Vice President Supplier Services and Business Development, commented: “We are committed to finding innovative and creative distribution solutions for our airline partners that meet their sales and revenue goals. At the same time, securing full content deals with leading carriers such as TAP is great news for our agency customers and ensures they can offer the very best service.”
Luiz Mor, Vice President Commercial for TAP Air Portugal added: “We are delighted to strengthen our longstanding affiliation with Travelport and view them as an important partner in meeting our global distribution and revenue objectives.”
This deal adds to the extensive list of full content agreements with European flag carriers that Travelport GDS customers already enjoy including BA, Lufthansa, SWISS, Alitalia, Iberia, Air France and KLM.
Notes to editors
About Travelport GDS
Travelport GDS is one of the world’s largest global distribution system (GDS) providers operating both the Galileo and the Worldspan brands, providing real-time travel information and booking capabilities to online and offline travel agencies in over 145 countries. It also operates Business Intelligence which provides marketing and other critical data to the industry, and includes its Shepherd Systems subsidiary; and IT Services & Software, which offers mission critical reservations, related software and services management to the world’s leading airlines. Travelport GDS is a convergence of traditional and online travel distribution services that empower airlines, travel suppliers, travel agencies, Web sites and corporations to provide informed choice to travelers on a global platform. Travelport GDS is a division of Travelport, one of the world’s largest service providers to the travel industry.
More information about Travelport GDS is available at www.travelport.com
Media Contact:
Kate Aldridge
Travelport GDS Communications
tel: 01753 288720
kate.aldridge@travelport.com