Anite gets no-frills access
Travel Technology Show Special: Anite is making no-frills fares available to its customers following a deal with Multicom, but director Ed Spires envisages a time when the no-frills carriers will work directly with companies like Anite. Previously Anite’s agent customers could access net fares and link to their GDS through the company’s integrated fares database, FareSearch. But with Multicom, agents can get charter fares and no-frills fares on the same screen. Anite director, Ed Spiers told TravelMole: “We looked at how to compare low cost fares with our existing fares database well over a year ago and unfortunately the only way is to go through the no-frills website.” He says that predicting when no-frills carriers will start working with the trade is like predicting the end of Viewdata. He told TravelMole: “I wouldn’t like to say when we’d be working with the low cost carriers, but you’d hope that within a year we’d get direct links with them.” He said that for the moment, Anite treats Multicom as a GDS, and in the future Anite plans to book hotel and car product from them. Anite also launched its first XML tour operator solution at the show, called @com. The browser-based product offers integrated reservations, content management and CRM, and uses XML technology. Anite says it has been designed to cope with the challenges of multichannel distribution and dynamic packaging. Mr Spiers told TravelMole that all Anite’s new customers were being encouraged to take up @com rather than a legacy system because it is more flexible. He says one clients is using the system already and another will be using in the next couple of months. He added: “I think we all accept that people will not start a new system with Viewdata, which is now primarily being used as a booking tool rather than anything else.” He said the majority of complaints about Viewdata were not its speed, but how it looked. Report by Ginny McGrath Read other stories from the Travel Technology Show: The future for dynamic packaging The end of Viewdata? Not for a while GDSs to review agent incentives Amadeus to diversify through Comtec deal No-frills airlines to get cut price GDS access? Operators warned: Going online exposes your technology Travel Trade Exclusive: OTC signs Lunn Poly deal
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