As in the old fable about the blind men describing the elephant, the picture of the travel industry’s global distribution system (GDS) looks like different things to different people. Thirty years on, the airlines that first begat GDSs see their offspring as overblown and overpriced. The GDSs see themselves as indispensable aggregators of information with superior technolo more...

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