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Travelport Begins Melding GDS Portfolio.

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President and CEO of Travelport's global distribution system division Gordon Wilson spoke with Business Travel News editors David Meyer and Jay Boehmer last week about the company's accomplishments and plans following last month's completed Worldspan acquisition.

BTN: How much of Worldspan, Galileo and Apollo do you intend to integrate and how much will you leave separate?

Gordon Wilson: Probably the best way to describe it is the way we have brought together Galileo and Apollo. They use the same fares and shopping capabilities, the same car rental and hotel booking products and leisure products and the same interface into GTA, which works with 23,000 independent hotels. The workstation front end is pretty much the same for both of them. I envisage over time the same thing with Worldspan. We'll make sure our airline partners will only have to have one connection into the three systems. The only thing that stays the same is the very core PNR-generating engine. The reason to keep that the same is that it is very much embedded into the business workflow processes and applications agencies have written in that environment. Over time, as we improve our front end and point of sale, it will be transparent as to which GDS is processing the transaction.

BTN: Do you foresee a time when those names go away, or will you always have different flavors?

Wilson:...

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