Amadeus enhances NDC connectivity Amadeus has added New Distribution Capability (NDC) connectivity to its Selling Platform Connect tool. It means agents can now view and compare all flights and related services such as baggage and other costs on one screen. Amadeus said its NDC upgrade means it now offers “a full range of air content”.
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TECHNOLOGY
Consolidator Faremine adds ‘Fare Families’ flight-price function
Faremine has introduced a ‘Fare Families’ concept and upgraded its system to offer airline ancillaries. Its “groundbreaking” Fare
Families search allows agents to compare prices in economy with or without packaged extras for 45 airlines. The consolidator says this offers upselling opportunities and gives agents more control. It has also made its system com-
patible to sell flights from New Dis- tribution Capability-ready airlines. Commercial director Phil
Pritchard said: “We are not the first to atempt to display fare families and ancillaries, but we are 100% confident our technology is the best in the industry and surpasses any other system out there. “Our groundbreaking design
uses each airline’s own terminology and branding, for example, Virgin Atlantic’s ‘Light’, ‘Classic’ and ‘Delight’ options, alongside the product description each airline has loaded into GDSs.”
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Jet2 adds 610,000 summer seats from two key airports
Phil Davies
Jet2.com is ramping up capacity following the collapse of Tomas Cook by adding hundreds of thousands of seats for next summer from Manchester and Birmingham airports. With the additional flying, the airline will be
offering more than 3.3 million seats for summer 2020 from Manchester – an increase of 16%, or 450,000 – as well as 160,000, or 23%, more from Birmingham to surpass two million. Four aircraſt are being added to the fleet at
Manchester, and the Greek island of Skiathos introduced with two flights a week from early May. Preveza in Greece, Zada in Croatia and Tivat in
Montenegro have already been added as routes from the northwest hub, the former base of Tomas Cook Airlines. Te expansion follows
Jet2.com’s addition of routes
to destinations such as the Canaries, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece and the Balearics for this winter.
Sandals serves up savings of up to £800 for bookings by end of October
Sandals is offering discounts of up to £800. Sandals Resorts’ new Booking Bonus offer is valid for bookings of 10 nights or more in all Butler category suites made before October 31 at three Sandals properties, in Antigua, Saint Lucia and Grenada, with prices from £2,699. Other category rooms qualify for £600 discounts.
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travelweekly.co.uk Te expansion will see more flights to the Canary
Islands, Balearics, mainland Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece, with 50 destinations now served from Manchester. Te Birmingham network rises to 47 routes with the
introduction of Skiathos and Barcelona in addition to previously announced routes to Preveza, Budapest, Kefalonia, Murcia and Nice. Tree extra aircraſt will be deployed from
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Birmingham to support the growth. Jet2 is adding 120,000 seats to four
destinations in the Canaries across both bases
to take the total capacity to over 600,000. Turkey – a former Tomas Cook stronghold
– gains 180,000 seats, taking the number to more than 600,000 from the two airports.
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays chief executive Steve
Heapy reported “unprecedented demand” for flights and Atol-protected package holidays from both airports.
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The Gambia Experience charters flights to fill Thomas Cook void
The Gambia Experience has chartered flights to The Gambia for winter 2020-21 with Enter Air to replace capacity lost when Thomas Cook collapsed. Flights will operate from Manchester and Birmingham from December 16 to April 22. Holidays start from £899.
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