Amadeus.net Ethe power behind your travel agency is now at your fingertips

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="10" marginwidth="10"> <table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align="left" class="medium"> <p align="left"><b>This is Amadeus.net </b>- the power behind your 'travel agency' is now at your fingertips. On this travel website you can research flight, hotel and car reservations and get detailed destination information such as "city guides", "subway maps" and "weather reports". This is a free travel site.</p> <p>Amadeus is a 'GDS' or 'Global Distribution System', providing on-line distribution, marketing and sales tools to travel agencies and professionals around the globe. On this site we provide the same information to you, the consumer.</p> <p>Through this site you can obtain information on flight schedules, flight availability, hotel room availability and car rental availability. This helps you to plan your travels whether it's your annual holiday or vacation, a weekend break, a city break, a family trip, bed & breakfast, a last minute trip. It's also helpful to the business or corporate traveller who has an existing reservation and wants additional information for their journey such as a conversion table, currency converter, a phrase book, a event calendar, a world clock, airport guides, destination guides or even a subway map - whether travelling continental or intercontinental.</p> <p class="">This is your travel site to help you research your travel itinerary, but we also help and travel information to anyone who is meeting you. Your friends or colleagues can check flight departure time, arrival time and if there is any flight delay.</p> <p class="">If you've already organized a trip through an Amadeus powered booking agent you can get details and confirmation by visiting our sister site Checkmytrip at <a href="http://www.checkmytrip.com" target="_blank">http://www.checkmytrip.com</a></p> <p class="">This site gives you neutral information. You cannot book a flight make a hotel reservation or hire a car through this site </p> <p class="">This site was built and is maintained by e-Travel. e-Travel is a division of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution.</p> <p class="">Amadeus was founded in 1987, and fully operational from 1992, Amadeus became a public listed company in 1999. Currently, three founder airline shareholders hold 59.92% of the company in the following proportions: <a href="http://www.airfrance.com" target="_blank">Air France</a> (23.36%), <a href="http://www.iberia.com/" target="_blank">Iberia</a> (18.28%) and <a href="http://www.lufthansa.com" target="_blank">Lufthansa</a> (18.28%). The remaining 40.08% of shares are held publicly. </p> <p class="">The System is an essential sales tool for travel agencies, which represent the core of Amadeus's users. 158,651 travel agency terminals are connected to Amadeus. </p> <p class="">In addition, Amadeus is the only GDS to offer airlines the ability to use CRS distribution and booking facilities at their airport ticket offices (ATOs) and (CTOs). These airlines are known as "system users" and Amadeus has 106 such customers with 71,331 Amadeus terminals installed. </p> <p class="">Thanks to Amadeus, airlines and other travel service providers can distribute and market their products through the terminals of travel agencies and airline sales offices in 198 countries. </p> <p class="">Amadeus provides its agency customers with many value-added features, including powerful software tools to manage sales processes and agency networks. Travel management solutions for corporations allow users to book travel from the desktop in collaboration with their preferred travel agency. </p> <p class="">Amadeus works with business and technology partners to develop innovative travel management solutions, based on advanced network technology and the Internet. </p> <p class="">The undisputed market-leader in Europe and South America, Amadeus has a strong foothold in the US market, in Africa, and in the Asia Pacific region. </p> <p class="">Worldwide, more travel agency locations are connected to Amadeus than to any other GDS, and more international bookings are made through Amadeus than through any other system.</p> <hr> <h4 align="left">Partner - Airlines</h4> <ul> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.adria.si/" target="_blank">Adria Airways</a> </div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.aerolineas.com.ar/" target="_blank">Aerolineas Argentinas</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.airaustral.com" target="_blank">Air Austral</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.airfrance.com" target="_blank">Air France</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.airmauritius.com/" target="_blank">Air Mauritius</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.bearskinairlines.com" target="_blank">Bearskin Airlines</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.braathens.no" target="_blank">Braathens</a> </div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.british-airways.com/regional/germany/" target="_blank">British Airways Deutschland</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.british-airways.com/regional/france/" target="_blank">British Airways France</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.british-airways.co.jp/index_e.html" target="_blank">British Airways Japan</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.cathaypacific.com" target="_blank">Cathay Pacific </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.emirates.com/" target="_blank">Emirates</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.travelup.net" target="_blank">Estonian Air</a> </div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.eurowings.de/" target="_blank">Eurowings</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.finnair.fi/" target="_blank">Finnair</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.iberia.com/" target="_blank">Iberia</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.icelandair.com" target="_blank">Icelandair On-line</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.japanairlines.com" target="_blank">Japan Airlines </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.koreanair.com/" target="_blank">Korean Air</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.ltu.de" target="_blank">LTU</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.luxair.lu" target="_blank">Luxair</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.maersk-air.com/" target="_blank">Maersk Air</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.malmoaviation.se" target="_blank">Malmö Aviation</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.oneworld.com" target="_blank">Oneworld Alliance</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.qantas.com" target="_blank">Qantas </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.voeriosul.com.br" target="_blank">Rio Sul Airlines</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.royalairmaroc.com/" target="_blank">Royal Air Maroc</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.scandinavian.net" target="_blank">SAS</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.spanair.com" target="_blank">Spanair</a> </div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.tap.pt/" target="_blank">TAP Air Portugal</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.thaiairways.com" target="_blank">Thai Airways </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.transavia.nl/home" target="_blank">Transavia Airlines</a>, <a href="http://www.basiqair.com" target="_blank">Transavia Basiq Air</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.varig.com/" target="_blank">Varig</a> </div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vlm-airlines.com/" target="_blank">VML</a> </div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.wideroe.no/" target="_blank">Wideroe</a></div> </li> </ul> <p align="left"> <br> </p> <hr> <h4 align="left">Partner - Hotels</h4> <ul> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.andbook.com" target="_blank">andbook.com</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.eazires-hotels.com" target="_blank">Eazy Res</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.fourseasons.com" target="_blank">Four Seasons</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.maritim.de">Maritim Hotels </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.occidental-hoteles.com" target="_blank">Occidental Hotels</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.qr-hotels.com" target="_blank">Quality Reservations </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.queens-hotels.com/" target="_blank">Queens Hotels </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.relaischateaux.com" target="_blank">Relais Chateaux</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.rica.no" target="_blank">Rica</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.savoy-group.co.uk"target="_blank">Savoy Group</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.selectmarketinghotels.com" target="_blank">Select Marketing Hotels</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.sonesta.com" target="_blank">Sonesta </a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.supranational.co.uk" target="_blank">Supranational</a></div> </li> <li> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.top-hotels.de" target="_blank">Top International Hotels</a></div> </li> </ul> <hr> <p>News 2002<br> <br> 1 Mar 2002 <b>Amadeus opens up the world of cruise for European travel agents </b><br> Amadeus announced that Costa Cruises will be available through Amadeus Cruise in the second quarter of 2002. The popular "point and click" browser based, cruise-booking tool will also be launched for the first time in multi-language versions.<br> <br> <br> 28 Feb 2002 <b>All British Airways sales offices switch to using Amadeus </b><br> British Airways has taken a major step towards simplifying its business and improving customer service with the introduction of the Amadeus sales system across the airline.<br> <br> <br> 22 Feb 2002 <b>Amadeus to launch pioneer Travel Technology Partnership Programme </b><br> Amadeus will launch the pioneer Travel Technology Partners Programme in May 2002 to facilitate the entry and growth of travel software houses in the global marketplace.<br> <br> <br> 8 Feb 2002 4th <b>Quarter/Full Year 2001 Results </b><br> Fourth quarter revenue increased 5.2 per cent to EUR 410.6m, while net income was EUR 15.0m, compared with a loss of EUR 6.0m in the final quarter of 2000. These results were ahead of our expectations, given the difficult market conditions in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in the US.<br> <br> <br> 5 Feb 2002 <b>Aeroflot to transfer its sales and reservation services to Amadeus </b><br> The board of directors of <a href="http://www.Aeroflot.com/" target="_parent">Aeroflot</a> Russian Airlines has approved the migration of the carrier's sales and distribution services to the Amadeus system in September 2002.<br> <br> <br> 14 Jan 2002 <b>Amadeus and Fourth Dimension Software announce successful first year for joint venture Atinera </b><br> Amadeus and Fourth Dimension Software marked the first anniversary of <a href="http://www.Atinera.com/" target="_blank">Atinera</a>. In its first year of operation, <a href="http://www.Atinera.com/" target="_blank">Atinera</a> has launched successfully and now services major clients around the world, including <a href="http://www.travelocity.com">Travelocity.com</a> and Scandinavian Airlines System.<br> <br> <br> 9 Jan 2002 <b>Travellink launches innovative business Travel Portal using BroadVision-Amadeus Travel Commerce </b><br> <a href="http://www.broadvision.com" target="_parent">BroadVision</a> and Amadeus announced that Travellink has launched its business travel portal,<a href="http://www.travellink.com"> www.travellink.com</a>, powered by BroadVision®-Amadeus Travel Commerce.<br> </p> <hr> <p>Facts and Figures Sheet </p> <p><b>The Amadeus Central System</b></p> <p>Through the Amadeus System over 57,500 travel agency locations and more than 8,500 airline sales offices around the world are able to make bookings with:</p> <ul> <li>around 450 airlines, representing more than 95% of the world's scheduled airline seats </li> <li>over 57,000 hotel properties</li> <li>some 45 car rental companies, serving some 24,000 locations</li> <li>other travel provider groups (ferry, rail, cruise, insurance companies and tour operators) </li> </ul> <p><b>Where we work</b><br> Our principal corporate, development and operational activities are divided between three locations across Europe: </p> <ul> <li>headquarters: Madrid, Spain</li> <li>product development and product marketing: Sophia Antipolis, France</li> <li>data processing centre: Erding, Germany </li> </ul> <p><br> We have subscribers in almost 200 markets worldwide. And we cover the needs of these different markets by delivering localised solutions for marketing, customer services and support through our network of almost 70 National Marketing Companies (NMCs). </p> <p>Over 4,500 people work in the Amadeus worldwide team - covering our principal locations and consolidated NMCs. And we have over 25 nationalities working in each of our central sites. A true multicultural team.</p> <p><b>Our partners in innovation</b><br> New technologies are transforming the travel and tourism industries, while the Internet is revolutionising travel distribution. With innovation coming from every quarter, Amadeus partners with technology, solutions and brand leaders to keep our customers at the forefront of change. </p> <p>With technology partners of the calibre of ITA, <a href="http://www.broadvision.com" target="_parent">BroadVision</a>, SAP, <a href="http://www.lotus.com" target="_parent">Lotus</a> and Fourth Dimension Software, we have developed e-commerce solutions that transform how people and companies buy, sell or manage travel. </p> <p>We also develop strategic joint ventures and partnerships with the world's best-known travel and service brands, to build next-generation travel services that take full advantage of the immense potential of e-commerce. </p> <p>Our joint-venture partners include <a href="http://www.terra.com/" target="_parent">Terra Lycos</a> (the world's third largest Internet portal). Our joint brand, <a href="http://www.rumbo.com/" target="_parent">Rumbo</a>, offers online travel services to millions of consumers in Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. </p> <p><b>Amadeus and e-commerce</b><br> Amadeus provides e-commerce solutions and services across the travel industry, enabling new ways to connect with customers, build loyalty and grow online revenues. Today, our system is the engine behind:</p> <ul> <li>over 3,000 travel agency web sites</li> <li>170 corporate sites </li> <li>15 hotel sites</li> <li>123 web sites serving over 34 airlines </li> </ul> <p><br> <b>Services to airlines</b><br> We provide the capacity for common shared access to flight reservations and frequent flyer information to almost 102 airlines as Amadeus System Users. Enabling secure information sharing between carriers, we are a key support to the global trend towards carrier alliances. </p> <p>Current Amadeus System Users include:</p> <ul> <li>3 of the 8 oneworld airlines</li> <li>8 of the 15 Star Alliance airlines</li> <li>3 of the 5 SkyTeam airlines <br> </li> </ul> <hr> <blockquote> <p><b>Corporate Headquarters</b><br> Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, S.A.<br> C/ Salvador de Madariaga 1<br> E- 28027 Madrid<br> SPAIN<br> Tel: +34 915 820 100<br> Fax: +34 915 820 188</p> <p><br> <b>Product Marketing and Development</b><br> Amadeus S.A.S<br> 485 Route du Pin Montard<br> Boite Postale 69<br> F- 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex<br> FRANCE<br> Tel: +33 492 94 6000</p> </blockquote></td> </tr> </table> <table align=center border=0 cellpadding=0 width="80%" cellspacing="0" height="60"> <tr align=center> <td width="100%" align="center" valign="middle"> <table align=center border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"> <tbody> </tbody> </table> <div align="center"> <p><br> Copyright © <b>2003 Amadeus GTD</b> · All rights reserved</p> </div></td> </tr> </table> </body>