Amadeus´ Airline Customers Generate over €2.6 Billion in Online Revenues

Amadeus e-Travel has announced record-breaking revenues and passenger booking figures through the Amadeus e-Travel Airline Suite.

In the first half of 2006, airlines´ e-commerce passenger bookings processed by Amadeus e-Travel increased by 28 percent over the same period last year. This represents an overall online booking value of more than €2.6 billion in six months through 250 websites in over 80 markets.

For the first time Amadeus e-Travel´s hosting services processed over four million air bookings in one month alone.

These services have been built by design to handle a simultaneous 300 percent increase across all customers, allowing them to focus on increasing their profitability and enhancing their user experience.

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.