Welcome
Welcome to the Travel Technology Research site for the airline IT market. The purpose of this service is to provide a consistent view of the market for airlines' information technology. This enables airlines to make informed decisions when selecting solutions to their technology requirements. It allows solutions vendors to understand the dynamics of the market and their competitive position within it and investors to evaluate opportunities for providing capital to the industry. The data you will find here is the result of over a decade's research into the market by the principals of T2RL. It is derived from published sources and direct primary research that we have carried out since 1999 and continue to carry out in the course of our work with airlines, IT vendors and investors.

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About this Database
What can you find here?
This is the production release of our site, www.t2rl.net V2.0. It was first released on 1 February 2010 and has been continuously updated since then. It addresses the market for airline systems from both the demand and supply sides.
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Demand - Applications
In the "Applications" tab of the database we have constructed a view of the airlines' critical IT systems.
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Demand - Airlines Data
The main body of the database consists of key data on the world's airlines. We track well over seven hundred airlines and to our knowledge this is the largest such database of airlines available today.
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Demand - Business Model
Recent years have seen rapid evolution in the business model of passenger airlines. Twenty years ago all airlines operated in much the same manner. They had extensive interline relationships and distributed their product primarily via travel agents. The rise of Southwest Airlines and its many imitators has changed the scene irrevocably.
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Demand - Schedules
We have taken a snapshot of airline schedules in early 2009 as an indicator of the network and operating complexity of the airlines we cover.
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Supply - Vendors
In the "vendors" tab we have provided information on the key vendors operating in the PSS and extended space.
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Business Models and Franchise Adjustments
Airline Franchise Adjustments
Reporting on the airline industry is a very challenging activity. Reporting on the supply of IT services to the industry just adds to the complications. At T2RL we have a well-established process to ensure that we track numbers that are consistent and provide an accurate representation of the state of the industries we follow.

Distribution

Graphical and statistical views for breakdown of distribution channels of airlines by region and by channel.

Insight

As well as capturing data, T2RL is engaged with analysing and understanding what those data represent. The Market Insights section contains the latest publications from T2RL Analysts on the development of the Airlines IT services industry. Example pdf document
Airlines Section
Drill down into airline detail, business model, distribution channels, schedules summary, traffic and software.

Search by name, code, tier, region, country, business model, passenger numbers, Alliance status and software.

Application Section
Graphical representation of the airline passenger application architecture. The information documents and identifies the relationships between reservations, operational systems, revenue integrity, customer data, revenue management, accounting and business intelligence.

Vendor Section

A unique perspective on the key systems vendors including ownership, customers, market share, platforms, functionality, history, analysis and outlook.

Reports

Vendor market shares represented by tables or charts. Users can filter results by product region, country, passenger volume tier and passenger numbers.