
Airline retailing is moving fast. NDC is maturing. Offer and Order is reshaping how airlines sell. GDS economics are under pressure. AI is rewriting the rules of personalization and pricing. And every week, something shifts. The V1 Airline Retailing Report cuts through the noise. Every Monday, host Eric Marketts — tech and aviation journalist — and Steph Nell — airline distribution expert and cons... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 16 | Founded | 3 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | News CommentaryAviationLeisureNews | |||

Episode: 016
Date: August 10, 2026
May 28, 2025: Southwest starts charging for a checked bag. January 27, 2026: fifty-four years of open seating end. August 3, 2026: Southwest announces NDC. Read those three dates in order and the story tells its... more
Episode: 015
Date: August 3, 2026
Early online era: 100 to 200 searches per ticket sold. Today: 10,000 to 20,000. OAG's projection for an agent-driven world: 200,000. Same one ticket at the end of it.
First weekly episode after our four-part State ... more
Episode Title: State of the GDS, Part 4: Travelport, the Rebuild
Published: Monday, July 27, 2026
For fifty years, booking a flight through any of the big three systems meant typing nonsense into a green screen. That cryptic terminal was the GDS. ... more
In July 2025, Sabre sold its hotel business. SynXis was a real, working, property-level technology company, the kind of asset most firms spend years trying to build. Sabre sold it for about a billion dollars, and almost every dollar went straight to ... more
State of the GDS 2026, Part 2 — Show Description & Notes
Episode Title: State of the GDS, Part 2: Amadeus and the Stack Play
Published: Monday, July 13, 2026
Episode Description
In May 2025, a passenger booked a Finnair ticket and the booking did... more
Everyone credits the GDS for the things that make modern travel work: one neutral screen, every airline's fares, settlement that clears across borders. Here is what most of the industry has forgotten. None of that was designed in. The GDS did not sta... more
The V1 Airline Retailing Report
Episode 010 — "Amadeus Moves Upstream: The Booking Was Never the Point"
Published: Monday, June 29, 2026
Episode Description
For fifteen years, airline distribution fought over one question: who controls the offer.... more
Episode: 009 - Own It or Rent It: The Model Got Cheap, the Stack Didn't
Date: June 22, 2026
The AI model layer just got cheap. None of the things that actually decide who wins in travel got any cheaper. That gap is the whole episode. This week on Th... more
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