Distribution

Question 1

The 3 OTAs that are NOT managed regionally

Answer 1

Expedia, Booking, Trip.com

Question 2

Trip.com group

Answer 2

Former Ctrip: also owns Skyscanner & Qunar
Chinese company

Question 3

NFO

Answer 3

Non-fully owned markets: we operate through a partner or distributor

Question 4

Example of non-fully owned market

Answer 4

Korea

Question 5

Limitation in distribution of rail

Answer 5

Rail content is only distributed domestically in GDSs

Question 6

Interest of Direct Connect for airlines

Answer 6

DC fee is much lower than GDS fee so use it for their lowest fares where margins are thin

Question 7

GDS integrated in 1S

Answer 7

abacus

Question 8

GDS integrated in Travelport (2)

Answer 8

Galileo (that used to be Apollo), Worldspan

Question 9

SSP avg and max TPS

Answer 9

28k up to 33k
[knife mum]

Question 10

SSP share of Erding

Answer 10

60% pure SSP
80% including things for SSP like JS

Question 11

Start of 1S

Answer 11

First computer reservation system, by AA+IBM

Question 12

Before the GDS

Answer 12

TAs had to connect to airlines’ CRS (one by one)
But a/l starting to share their CRS, leading eventually to GDS

Question 13

NDC messages between Ludwig GDS and TAs

Answer 13

MasterPricerRQ
Travel-OfferPrice, etc.
Travel-OrderCreate, etc.
(specific to Ludwig)

Question 14

Distribution solution to avoid IT computation cost

Answer 14

Offer Repository: cache of offers for Inspirational Step in Ludwig TP

Question 15

PoC for Offer Repository

Answer 15

With CX