Long a secretive and shady niche in the global travel industry, the shroud of mystery surrounding airline consolidators and the airlines that work with them is rapidly lifting. Once loathe to publicly revealing their name in conjunction with their distribution partners in this opaque channel, airlines are now ‘opening their kimonos’, and loudly broadcasting [...]
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Airline Consolidator Programs
April 29, 2009 – 8:52 am
The airline consolidator industry has been around since the introduction of commercial aviation. When airlines find themselves with excess inventory that they know they can’t easily ‘move’, they rely on consolidators as a means of both offloading the inventory at ‘distressed prices, while at the same time protecting their brand against commoditization and preventing losing [...]
