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Galileo boosts content, saves trees
HONG KONG – Content is king and Galileo, in the first eight months of this year, has been enhancing the air and non-air content it makes available to travel agents, an offering that will be further enhanced with its purchase of Worldspan last week.
Here’s what it has done year to date:
• Signed content distribution agreements with a low cost carrier and a new Myanmar based airline
• Renewed partnerships with six Asia Pacific-based full service carriers which collectively operate more than 500 aircraft and serve up to 75,000 million passengers per year
• Implemented e-ticketing on over 30 Asian airlines including Air India, Air China, Hainan Airlines, Malaysian Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Shandong Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Vietnam Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
Galileo has content and distribution agreements with over 470 airline carriers and some 75 low cost carriers, and implemented e-ticketing on over 183 airlines in 94 countries.
On average, three out of four tickets are issued electronically, representing 77.5% of total tickets issued on Galileo and Apollo. As a direct result of e-ticketing, Galileo is estimated to be saving a minimum of 14 acres of forest per month.
In the area of hotel content, Galileo’s ‘Best Available Rates’ (BAR) programme has over 150 hotel brands participating, representing more than 30,000 properties in 74 countries.
A total of 18 hotel chains signed up to this programme this year, including Marco Polo Hotels, ANA Hotels International, Langham Hotels International and Pacific International Hotels.
Brad Holman, President and Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Galileo by Travelport, said that Galileo would “continue to work with the industry to enhance the content and functionality that we make available to our connected travel agents, while providing innovative distribution solutions for airline partners to drive higher sales and improved efficiencies”.
Yeoh Siew Hoon
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