GLG News by Airline Global Distribution System Experts

Slot committee meets this week at LHR to finalize the 2008 summer season. After the meetings we can expect to see new highs in the value of a Slot pair (Takeoff and Landing) at the World's busiest international airport If the price goes very high then it will put BMI into play.

Boeing admits that the 787 Program is going to be challnged for some time as it grapples with the logistics of a Global Supply Chain System. The 787 production problems are deeper than just a slight delay. Key supplier partners are not performing Boeing's management of the logistics is flawed and based...

The GDS industry, which earns its money primarily from the travel agency community (both online and offline) booking airline tickets, has been said to be totally commoditized and destined for decline.  In 2005 (the last year that all reported their earlings publicly), globally the GDSs processed...

Boeing will have unhappy customers and some catching up to do.  The company will face performance penalties for late deliveries, albeit not as material as those Airbus faced for the longer A-380 delays.  The difficulties of new technologies combined with a new global manufacturing...

Boeing finally admits defeat and announces delay of 787 deliveries until end of 2008 Supply chain and integration problems will persist until 2010 Lessons for Airbus

Singapore and the UK have concluded after more than 20 years a complete Open Skies Agreement for traffic to, from, and through their respective markets. Significance for Europe is that this was not concluded under EC tutelage Significance for USA is that it allows SQ onto the lucrative North Atlantic...

Many Airlines have large debt loads. Looking at assets to leverage for a cleaner balance sheet prior to equipment buys is urgent as well as returning some shareholder value ACE Holdings (Air Canada’s parent) solution may be the answer For AMR AAdvantage may be worth up to $4Bn

Sabre needs a new airline hosting system Approximately $630 Million in New Revenue to EDS quoted for new contract Why this is important to Airlines Amadeus has captured most of the major airlines around the world

In July of this year TomTom acquired TeleAtlas for $29.39 per share or $2.7b USD (28x EBITDA).  Today, Nokia paid $78 USD per share or $8.1b for Navteq (35.7x EBITDA). What value can they both now extract?   With mapping services like GoogleMaps, Mapquest, Yahoo!Maps and even AAA's TripTik...

BBC Worldwide bought Lonely Planet in a deal that insiders value at over $203m.  The question is whether content alone is enough to propel BBC Worldwide into the forefront of the $2.8 trillion global leisure travel market? Founders, Maureen and Tony Wheeler, will keep a 25% stake and presumably...