Here are the highlights from my recent presentation at CASMA titled “Future Innovations in Airline Distribution”. The original deck has about 50 slides, but because it was designed for a live 60-minute speech, it’s hard to get the meaning of many of the slides (nearly all pictures) by themselves. So here’s the 3-minute version:
Channels have limits.
Distribution channels are essential to commerce, but they have limits. The Panama Canal has to build wider locks to accommodate the newest and largest cargo ships. This is a metaphor for the GDS distribution channel, as it cannot handle the “wider” content that airlines want to distribute today.
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Gillespie's Guide to Travel Innovation 