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GDSs rework pricing as DOT discards regulations.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 19-JAN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 952 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Global distribution system firms in recent weeks altered their 2004 pricing structures and signed additional aMines to their content-for-discount programs even as the U.S. Department of Transportation finalized its rules governing such relationships in its Dec. 31, 2003, decision to deregulate the GDSs beginning this month. Complete elimination of the rules under which GDSs trove operated since the 1980s will take place in July (BTNonline, Jan. 5).

As a result of DOT's decree, corporate travel buyers will need to be wary of varying airline participation levels and display bias in global distribution systems, as well as airline access to booking data, said travel management companies.

GDS firms, TMCs and others, including the National Business Travel Association, hailed DOT's final role, largely because it avoided new regulations DOT proposed more than one year ago (BTN, Dec. 9, 2002). DOT's conclusion sanctions greater...

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