The proposed merger of Chile-based LAN Airlines and Brazil’s TAM could have an impact on GDS and airline-alliance relationships.
TAM migrated to the Amadeus reservations system in 2009, and although the LAN res system is currently an Amadeus-Resiber hybrid, LAN revealed in early 2010 that it had signed a mulityear agreement to transition to Sabre as its reservations system provider.
Although it might seemingly make sense for the merged airlines to remain on the Amadeus system, presumably there would be signficant penalties if LAN were to attempt to back out of its Sabre contract.
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