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Managing Partner
T2Impact Ltd
plus a change
Who/What is T2Impact?
US Airlines
Airlines continue to be
silos
True reformation has
not occurred
The airlines are still
messed up
They still act like
Lemmings
Retro is not in
Is travel a right or a
privilege?
What is the true social
cost of flying
What happens when
the rest of the world
catches up?
AeroLloyd
Air Charter
Air Holland
Air Inter
Air Liberte
Air Littoral
Aloha
Ansett
AOM
Aspen
Airways
ATA
Balair
BCAL
Braathens
Braniff 2 & 3
Brymon
Canada 3000
Canadian
CanJet
Debonair
Deutsche BA
Eastern Airlines
Flying Tigers
GB Airways
Gulf Air Transport
Hamburg Airlines
JMC
Maersk
Pacific Interstate
Pan Am
Sabena
SAHSA
pantax
Swissair
TAESA
TEA
TWA
UTA
Wardair
Ticketless
Online Travel
People with stamina
Amadeus
Expedia
Direct Channels
LCCs
Google
Mega Carriers
Alliances
Winners
Bankrupt Airlines
GDS Model
Cendant
Ticket Printers
Travel Agents
Preview Travel
Countless Tech
companies
EuroBerlin
Investors
Flight Kitchens
Alitalia/Marginal Airlines
Losers
GDS Screens
Private Fares
Bargains
Every year
another new
company
More hot air
Big Tour
Operators
Lack of smart
people
No Changers
Europe
Opodo what were they
thinking???
LHs first paperless
experiment
Why did Concorde shut
down?
Olympic and BA?
Alitalia and anything?
Swissair and anything?
EuroDisney?
1964 Sabre is launched as the first Computer Reservation System), linking all offices of AA.
1969 Four US universities are linked by computer for the first time. DARPA Net is born
1971 TUI, Lufthansa, and DB found the study group for automatisation for travel and
tourism, in German, the Studiengesellschaft zur Automatisierung fr Reise und Touristik,
known as START in short. Its goal is to develop a common CRS for travel agencies.
1972 The first START terminals introduced to the agencies; connection costs 12,000 DM.
1987 The term Internet is used for the 1st time. Manfred Hegenlohs travel agency uses
BTX LH, AF, SK, IB found Amadeus, which takes over from START several years later.
1991 Worldspan opens adds scheduled flights to all DER holidays via the Structured
Message Interface (SMI), which became the most important interface between the online &
GDS world.
1992 Hyperlinks are invented. These are links to other websites and enable Internet surfing
possible with a browser.
1993 Mosaic, the first graphics-capable browser, is offered as a free download. From this
point, more and more private individuals go online; the Internet is becoming a potential
mass medium.
1996 Expedia.com goes online in September. Expedia.de in starts in September 1999. Today,
the company has replaced Travelocity as the worldwide market leader.
Some Milestones:
IP
AutoLink
Client
Interactive
Voice
Windows
Application
Web
Services
Non-MS
Client
AutoLink
Client
EDIFACT
XML
Web
Browser
AutoLink
Client
EDI
FTP
HTML
WAP
AutoLink
IVR
Object Hosting
Service
AutoLink
Client
ALC
X.25
SNA
SCREEN
SCRAPE
Web Services
Japan
KGD
Airline
Mainframe
APTCO
AutoLink/Pass
Non-Rev
NavTech
CASS
etc.
FHB CC
DOT
AIMS
Airport(s)
Crew
Web
SOCC
CDM Cargo
MXi
Maintenance
Gateways to
GDSs (Sabre, Galileo,
Online.com
Worldspan, Amadeus)
Avis
Aerius (Aust.) Shares
Orbitz
etc.
IIS
AutoLink
Client
3 Databases
1. Parsing
2. Normalized
3. Bus. Rules
The Airline
Functional Overview
Web GUI
Front-End
Basically nowhere!
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