Amadeus joy as monthly bookings top 4m

Amadeus E-Travel has processed four million air bookings in a one month for the first time in its history, the company has revealed. The milestone for Amadeus came as it also announced a mammoth 28% increase in the number of bookings in the first half of 2006 against the same period in 2005. The increase…

Amadeus E-Travel has processed four million air bookings in a one month for the first time in its history, the company has revealed.


The milestone for Amadeus came as it also announced a mammoth 28% increase in the number of bookings in the first half of 2006 against the same period in 2005.


The increase has led to the company to record online revenues of Euros 2.6 million.


Commercial director for Amadeus e-Travel, Jérôme Destors, said: “We continue to invest tens of millions of Euros to stay at the forefront of e-commerce self-service solutions.


“With the proven reliability and flexibility of Amadeus e-Travel, we are well poised to further develop our solutions for tomorrow’s market.


“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.”


Since the beginning of 2006 Amadeus has signed seven new deals with airlines including China Airlines, China Eastern, Kenya Airways and SilkAir.