Philippine Airlines and Travelport, one of the world’s largest travel conglomerates, have signed a three year global marketing agreement that enables Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan connected travel agents to access automated market fares and take advantage of additional functionality until the end of 2011. The Travelport deal includes two strategic solutions for Philippine Airlines’ customers with the implementation of Octopus Travel hotel content on the airline’s website and the deployment of Travelport Rapid Reprice?, an automated ticket repricing product.

Travelport GDS has expanded its Featured Property tool to the Worldspan travel booking platform. Featured Property is a point-of-sale tool that provides the visual advantage of positioning hotel properties at the top of a travel agent’s search screen.

Travelport GDS, one of the world’s leading global distribution system (GDS) providers, today announced the findings of a new international benchmarking study conducted by Topaz International, a world leader in airfare auditing, showing that Travelport e-Pricing consistently finds the lowest available airfares worldwide. Topaz tracked the performance and itinerary pricing results of four of the most prominent low-fare shopping tools in the travel industry. Results revealed that e-Pricing not only finds lowest fares more often than other products, nearly 60 percent of the time overall, but also generates an average saving of $68.13 per ticket - substantial savings for corporations and consumers, and the travel agencies, travel management companies (TMC) and Web sites that support them.

Travelport GDS, one of the world’s leading global distribution system (GDS) providers, has enhanced its ViewTrip information tool to streamline online check-in for travellers.

Travelport GDS has signed content agreements with three key carriers in China - Xiamen Airlines, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines. The deals will provide Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan subscribers with access to international fares and inventory from the three airlines via the GDS.

Travelport GDS has announced a multi-million dollar investment across Eastern Europe in response to the growth potential it has identified within the region.  The company confirmed that Eastern Europe’s travel sales via the GDS sector are currently growing at around 20% year-on-year.