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Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Who is the biggest Global Distribution Systems Company?

June 25, 2011

Who is the biggest GDS? | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

Today's blog is on topic that I have been personally intrigued with since I wrote my first book on Global Distribution in 1999 - GDS Share.When I wrote my last book on the GDS companies, I got all of the GDS companies to share with me their booking share data by region and I forced them to rationalize their differences so that no one would object to what was published.  That was a decade ago and the marketplace (and the owners) are different, and so is the availability of GDS booking share data.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Travel Industry Market Share has a New Definition (and will need new metrics)

June 25, 2011

Market Share has a new Definition | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

Today's blog is a discussion about the term "market  share" when used in the travel distribution ecosystem context.Let me start by saying that prior to the advent of the Internet  in the mid-90s, third party travel distribution was dominated by the Global Distribution Companies (GDS) and booking share was most easily estimated by the use of MIDT (marketing information data tapes).

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Travel Industry Pedigree Series: Orbitz.com

June 15, 2011

Travel Industry Pedigree Series: Orbitz.com | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

Well, in the world of travel distribution on the OTA side of the equation, if Travelocity was the "come home to papa" story, then Orbitz Worldwide is the "child running as far away from the parents as possible" story.   Well, at least one of its parents....  more on that later.Orbitz was founded by four airlines (Continental, United, Delta and Northwest) and was later joined by American Airlines. For the diagram of the pedigree story, see the original blog.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Travel Industry Pedigree Series - Travelocity

June 14, 2011

Travel Industry Pedigree Series - Travelocity | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

Travelocity's pedigree is somewhat simpler than Expedia's.    This is what we call the "come home to papa" story (with Papa being Sabre).   The story actually started a bit before the 1996 date shown in the graphic on the original blog, with Sabre's entry into online with EAASY Sabre and Commercial Sabre in the 80s on Compuserve.   

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Travel Industry Pedigree Series: Expedia

June 13, 2011

Travel Industry Pedigree Series: Expedia.com | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

This blog covers the history of Expedia, from a corporate pedigree perspective.  Expedia is currently a publicly traded entity.  Expedia began as a skunk works project within Microsoft, with then 29 year old [dare I say "pup"], Rich Barton at the helm.Unlike its competitors over the years, there were NO airline investors in Expedia.  The site was powered by Worldspan, then owned by Northwest, Delta and TWA.   To say they have come a long way is an understatement.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Travel Industry Pedigree: Hotwire.com

June 11, 2011

Travel Industry Pedigree Series: Hotwire.com | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

Solutionz launched a new series today on our blog, documenting the pedigree of the various major players in the travel industry.  This is the first in a new series, called Travel Industry Pedigree.  In this series, we will look at how each of the major players in the travel space got their start. We begin with Hotwire.com, an operating company of Expedia.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Jet fuel climbing again - annual impact to airline industry could be $60 billion

June 6, 2011

Sustainable profits holds key to future of aviation (and the GDS, OTAs, Casinos and Hotels) | www.breakingtravelnews.com

This week's price of aviation jet fuel is $130.2, up 51.5% from one year ago.  The last time fuel prices were this high was the summer of 2008.  We saw devastating impact to the US travel industry as a result.  IATA expects the impact of the new fuel price average ($127.4/barrel) to result in a $60 billion impact on the global aviation industry.  This doesn't account for the impact on the Global Distribution System (GDS), the Online Travel Agency (OTA), Cruise Lines, Casinos and Hotels sectors.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

AA/Sabre Dispute: All is quiet on the western front..... for now

June 1, 2011

AA/Sabre Dispute: All is quiet on the western front... | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

For the time being, June 1st is not the cataclysmic event that had been predicted, but the engines have not been turned off in this game of chicken, at least not just yet. This morning, Travelocity (powered by Sabre) still has AA prominently displayed and the travel management companies that we serve still seem to have AA availability displayed using the normal algorithms in native Sabre.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Distribution Fundamentals: Looking through a single lens can be hazardous

May 28, 2011

Distribution Fundamentals: Looking through a single Lens can be hazardous | distribution-solutionz.blogspot.com

Any first year MBA student already knows that in order to see the profit picture clearly, you need to look at both revenue and cost.If you are charged with understanding the dynamics between travel suppliers and the distribution channels, we recommend you read the full article.In the full article, we review the hazards of not looking at the total profitability picture, which is the current state of play in the GDS/airline battles.

Chicke Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer

Chicke FitzgeraldChief Executive OfficerSOLUTIONZ HOLDINGS What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Travel Industry impact of Google's acquisition of ITA Software - Market maker?

April 19, 2011

Google Seals ITA Deal; Larger Antitrust Review Looms | www.foxbusiness.com

In any retail business, when you are able to control or influence consumer behavior, your ability to dominate a particular product or service category increases exponentially.  Google controls 64.9% of search traffic.  That is market control by any measure.  Add to that the ability to take simple queries for the most common of all online activities - travel planning and intervene with recommendations versus pure search results - and you have the making of a market maker in the travel industry.

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