from www.e-tid.com American Airlines wants answers from Sabre/Amadeus 09 Mar 2006 This week?s airline inventory announcement from Sabre and Amadeus needs ?further explanation?, according to American Airlines. In a statement, the carrier said: ?American believes that its contracts with Goss prohibit redistributing and remarketing American?s content among those systems.? David Cush, American's vice president and general sales manager, said: ?It?s greatly concerns us that this announcement by Sabre may indeed mislead travel agencies and professionals into falsely believing that the content issue facing the GDSs is solved by this arrangement.? The statement added that 'American has in the past, and will in the future, vigorously protect its content to the fullest extent under applicable contracts and law; this will include addressing bookings of American?s fares made through unauthorized sources.' Travel Weekly Crossroads points out that American has previously used the courts to protect its distribution ? it sued FareChase in 2004 for unauthorised scraping. Earlier this week Sabre and Amadeus announced a deal that ensures access for agents to each other?s airline inventory in the unlikely case of an airline withdrawing from the other GDS. In response to American's statement, a Sabre spokesperson said: 'We have totla confidence in the commercial and technical solution we have developed and believe it is in coimpliance with all subscriber, carrier and data supllier agreements.' He pointed out that the agreement with Amadeus was similar to longstanding arrangements under which Sabre provided access to its contents through other GDSs, notably Abacus in the Far East. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.