Amadeus press releases

Amadeus Affinity Shopper wins industry vote at PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit

Amadeus announces its Affinity Shopper product, developed for airline websites and launched last week, has won the PhoCusWright travel technology innovation award. Recognised at The Travel Innovation Summit in Orlando, USA, Affinity Shopper is the first solution from Amadeus Extreme Search technology portfolio which enables travellers to shop on airline websites by their desired travel experience rather than on a linear date and destination basis

23 Nov 2009

Amadeus Extreme Search Developments Will Serve the Needs of the Next Generation Traveller

Amadeus continues to push back the boundaries of online shopping technology for the travel sector. Amadeus Affinity Shopper, the first solution that enables travellers to shop by their desired travel experience on an airline website, was presented yesterday at the Phocuswright Conference in Orlando, USA. Amadeus Affinity Shopper is based on the Amadeus Extreme Search concept which allows consumers to ask on-line open questions such as 'where can I go, what can I do, for what I want to spend?' They instantly find clear precise alternatives to make their selection on the same search page, without the need to insert a destination city or a date of travel, unless they already know where they want to go

18 Nov 2009

Air France and KLM to jointly adopt new generation inventory solution from Amadeus

Amadeus today announces that Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have signed a ten year agreement for the implementation and operation of Amadeus Altéa Inventory by 2010. The airlines' new inventory management solution will be fully integrated with their sales platform, Altéa Reservation. Both airlines will replace their legacy inventory systems with a single solution that will manage their 74.5 million passengers and more than 900,000 flights per year

26 Oct 2009

Royal Jordanian signs with Amadeus to pursue growth and modernisation

Royal Jordanian and Amadeus, a global provider of technology and distribution solutions to the travel and tourism industry, today announce a 10 year IT partnership. Royal Jordanian will adopt the full Amadeus Altéa Customer Management and ecommerce suite of solutions. The investment will underpin Royal Jordanian's drive for modernisation and growth in the Middle East, and through its membership of the oneworld Alliance

21 Oct 2009

TAM Airlines signs 10 year IT partnership with Amadeus

TAM Airlines, the largest airline in the southern hemisphere, and Amadeus, a leading global IT provider for the travel and tourism industry, announce a 10 year technology partnership, to equip TAM Airlines with a new generation passenger service system. Amadeus will replace multiple legacy applications currently used by TAM Airlines, with a single integrated platform based on the Amadeus Altéa Customer Management Solution

25 Aug 2009

Journey updates now an SMS away for Grupo SATA travellers thanks to Amadeus

Grupo SATA, the Azorean air transportation group, has successfully launched Amadeus' new Altéa Automated Customer Contact solution, which enables airlines to notify individual travellers of changes to their journey, via mobile phone text message. The group's airlines, SATA Air Açores and SATA Internacional, are the first in the world to offer their passengers this service using Altéa Automated Customer Contact. The new solution was developed in close partnership with Grupo SATA

8 Jul 2009

Amadeus and China Southern Airlines partner to give Chinese travellers access to online bookings

Amadeus has today announced the successful deployment of the Amadeus e-Retail solution for China Southern Airlines' international outbound bookings. Travellers in China are now able to book tickets to China Southern's global destinations via the China Southern website (www.cs-air.com). Amadeus and China Southern have been working together since 2006, when Amadeus technology first helped the airline to process inbound website bookings from customers outside China. This deal now sees Amadeus powering all international online bookings for the carrier's inbound and outbound customers

18 Jun 2009

SAS Group signs 10 year technology partnership with Amadeus

SAS Group and Amadeus have signed a 10 year technology partnership for the provision of a new generation passenger service system. Adoption of next-generation technology will support the SAS Group's move towards cost efficiency and an enhanced capacity to respond effectively to a fast-changing and competitive marketplace. Amadeus will implement the new technology platform for the SAS Group of airlines through a phased migration process which will start in 2010

2 Apr 2009

Star Alliance Common IT Platform progresses with further inventory migrations

The Star Alliance Common IT Platform (CITP) has taken a significant step forward with the successful migration of additional member carriers to the new inventory platform. Austrian, Adria Airways and Croatia Airlines have all switched their inventory, pricing, flight schedules, seat planning and passenger re-accommodation applications to the new inventory management module of the Amadeus Altéa solution, which forms part of the CITP. With these migrations the airlines are able to improve the yield potential of their network

7 Jan 2009