Travelport completes purchase of Worldspan
Travelport has completed the $1.4 billion acquisition of Worldspan.
Jeff Clarke, president and CEO of Travelport and chairman of Orbitz Worldwide, said: “We will be working on enhancements and operational efficiencies including systems integrity, fare accuracy, and ease-of-use that capitalise on the GDS knowledge and experience of Galileo and Worldspan.
“Galileo will be enhanced by Worldspan’s online distribution technology platform, while Worldspan will benefit from Galileo’s expanded supplier base and expansive content.”
The group said Travelport customers can expect to “benefit from innovations that will provide an enhanced shopping experience, a rapid re-price system that will reduce the cost and time of refunding and exchanging airline tickets, and additional localised content for customers globally, among other new service offerings”.
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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