bmi guarantees full content for Travelport-connected customers

Agreement ensures access to all fares and classes

Langley, UK, 2 December: Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, has today announced a continuation to its global content agreement with British Midland International (bmi). Through the agreement, Travelport has ensured that its Galileo and Worldspan travel agency customers worldwide have continued access to the full published fares.

The agreement further continues Travelport’s successful strategy of securing full content programmes with airlines across the globe.

“We are delighted to have signed this agreement with bmi and to be able to guarantee continued content without a surcharge for such content for booking by all our travel agency customers,” said Robin Ranken, Head of Airline Relationships for Europe. He also said “This agreement will certainly sharpen our competitive edge and further illustrate our ability to work with our airline partners to reach a situation that is mutually beneficial.”

 Barbara Hunter, General Manager Distribution and Customer Services at bmi commented: “Travelport offers an important distribution channel for the sale of bmi fares through their Galileo and Worldspan platforms and we are pleased to be continuing our partnership with them.”

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Notes to editors

About Travelport (www.travelport.com)
Travelport is a broad-based business services company and a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions to companies operating in the global travel industry.

With a presence in 160 countries, approximately 3,500 employees and reported 2010 revenues of $2.3 billion, Travelport is comprised of the global distribution system (GDS) business, which includes the Galileo and Worldspan brands and its Airline IT Solutions business, which hosts mission critical applications and provides business and data analysis solutions for major airlines.

Travelport also owns approximately 48% of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), a leading global online travel company. Travelport is a private company owned by The Blackstone Group, One Equity Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, and Travelport management.

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About bmi

bmi, British Midland International, is the second largest airline at London Heathrow, one of the world’s leading international hub airports. Across its mainline route network bmi operates to Aberdeen; Addis Ababa; Agadir; Almaty; Amman; Amritsar; Baku; Basel; Beirut; Belfast City; Bergen; Bishkek; Cairo; Casablanca; Damascus; Dammam; Dublin; Edinburgh; Freetown; Hanover; Jeddah; Khartoum; London Heathrow; Manchester; Marrakech; Moscow Domodedovo; Nice, Riyadh; Stavanger; Tbilisi; Tehran; Tripoli; Vienna; Yerevan.

bmi is a member of Star Alliance. The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award, Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Blue1, British Midland International, Brussels Airlines, Continental Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, SWISS, TAM Airlines, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI, United and US Airways. Avianca-TACA, Copa Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines have been announced as future members. Overall, the Star Alliance network offers more than 21,200 daily flights to 1,185 airports in 185 countries.

Media Contacts

Zina Zhang
PR Manager, Asia Pacific
Travelport
Tel: +61 (0) 2 9391 4059
Email: zina.zhang@travelport.com 

Posted on Monday, 05 Dec 2011