Thomas Cook’s first-half results talk about its airline operations as a separate business unit, and claims that by carrying 17 million passengers a year it is one of Europe’s leading leisure airlines. In the six months to end-March its airline – comprising Condor in Germany and Thomas Cook Airlines…

3Mundi has sold a 25% stake to Flight Centre – in another strategic investment for the Australia-based travel group. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. The deal follows a licensing deal between 3Mundi and Flight Centre’s corporate travel arm FCM in 2015. The company was created in 2006 as…

Amadeus is looking to tap a new segment as it extends data it traditionally provides for the airline community and travel agents to destination marketing organisations. The company has unveiled technology targeting DMOs, called Destination Insight, which aims to help them improve their marketing campaigns via the use of “near…

Webjet, Australia’s largest online travel agency, completed a first round of testing to measure shoppers’ responses to airlines’ rich content as supplied by Routehappy. Webjet created the test to determine whether rich content would improve its purchase funnel. Its hypothesis was that more consumers would convert after interacting with…

When companies external to travel say it’s time to embrace something new, it can often be taken with a pinch of salt. But, when it comes from within the industry, maybe it’s time to sit up and pay attention. Enter CAPA chief Peter Harbison who gave an aviation industry update…

Yatra.com has reported its full-year results to end-March, confirming that it is growing strongly in volume terms while finding it difficult to rein in costs and losses. Its financial year runs April-March, slightly out of synch with other B2C travel brands, although India’s other Nasdaq-listed OTA MakeMyTrip has the…

Amsterdam-based ticketing platform Tiqets has picked up $17 million in funding and will use the cash to fulfil its  global ambitions. Its CEO Luuc Elzinga told Tnooz that the expansion is focused on adding inventory. “We have people whose only role is to talk to venues and bring their…

A Kayak.co.uk study into the British traveller reveals some long-term grains of optimism when it comes to bots despite the fact that, presently, more than half the country hasn’t heard about them. The questions about bots revealed some positive growth over the past year, hardly a surprise since bots…

Finding our way around has become the most universal task conducted on smartphones. According to Pew Research, last year 90 percent of smartphone owners in America used their device to get directions, recommendations or other information related to their location. NB This is a viewpoint by Kalle Marsal, chief…

An airline distribution conference doesn’t seem complete without a bit of a poke at the global distribution systems. Segment fees paid by airlines, age of the technology and how long it takes to get anything new done are all popular reasons for GDS bashing. However, at an airline event last…