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Will EC Undermine CRS Code Revision?

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 23-JUL-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The European Commission is attempting to hobble its own revision of its code of conduct governing global distribution systems, travel industry organizations have alleged. They claim the Commission's Directorate-General for Transport and Energy is preparing to redefine what constitutes airline ownership of a GDS, so that Amadeus effectively no longer would be considered to have any parent carriers.

This change of status for Amadeus is crucial because it could render moot the Commission's expected announcement in the next few months that it will deregulate most of its 18-year-old Computer Reservation System Code of Conduct, but retain curbs on GDSs with parent carriers to prevent what is known as double dominance. Double dominance exists in a country where the dominant carrier has ownership of the market-leading GDS. This is the case in France, Germany and Spain because Air France/KLM, Lufthansa and...

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