Amadeus e-Travel generate 2.6 billion euros in 6 months

NEW DELHI: Amadeus e-Travel, online travel solutions provider and the e-commerce business unit of Amadeus, today announced that it has generated 2.6 billion Euros in online revenues in six months through 250 websites in over 80 markets with Amadeus e-Travel airline suite.

In the first half of 2006, airlines’ e-commerce passenger bookings processed by Amadeus e-Travel increased by 28 per cent over the same period last year. Seven new customers joined Amadeus e-Travel in this period - among them China Eastern, China Airlines, Kenya Airways and SilkAir - bringing the total number of network carriers using the Amadeus e-Travel Airline Suite to over 70.

For the first time Amadeus e-Travel’s hosting services processed over 4 million air bookings in one month alone. These services have been built by design to handle a simultaneous 300 per cent increase across all customers, allowing them to focus on increasing their profitability and enhancing their user experience.

Jérôme Destors, commercial director, Amadeus e-Travel, said, “We continue to invest tens of millions of Euros to stay at the forefront of e-commerce self-service solutions. We continue to work closely with airlines around the globe to ensure that our solutions in the future will deliver even more robust online sales revenues for them.”

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