Travel agencies connected to the Travelport-run GDSs were notified this week of significant changes to the core platform and their commercial terms from 2012.
Known as the Agility programme, agencies using the Worldspan, Galileo and Apollo distribution platforms will have to install from 1 January next year a new desktop system for access to products, fares and availability.
The move also sees the official roll-out of Travelport’s Smartpoint system (introduced in some markets in August 2011), a system said to improve the user experience of the existing, traditional green screens by combining some of the original processes favoured by many agents with a modern look and feel.
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