Travelport reports signing a long-term IT services partnership with the Netherlands’ low-cost carrier transavia.com, an independently operated member of the Air France/KLM Group.
transavia.com has adopted the Travelport ETDBase, a global e-ticket database hosting service, and joined the Travelport E-Ticket Interchange to fully support its codeshare and interline e-ticketing agreements.
Travelport notes ETDBase is a comprehensive e-ticket database hosting service used by airlines to quickly implement e-ticketing, and store and manage e-ticket data for online and interline e-ticketing.
Over 60 million e-tickets are stored in the e-ticket database, which Travelport says is built and maintains to eliminate costly investments and risks for airlines, and make interline partner connections a fast, simple and cost-effective process.
Travelport E-Ticket Interchange manages around 70 percent of interline e-ticket messages between airline partners worldwide, including ground handlers. It supports over 6,200 interline agreements and in 2012 processed more than 435 million messages, Travelport says.
“Travelport’s e-ticketing solution provides a global interline e-ticketing facility that reduces implementation times, costs and complexities, while giving airlines of any size the ability to compete and grow on a global scale,” said Derek Sharp, Travelport president and managing director, Global Distribution Sales & Services and Airline IT Solutions.
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