Travelport owns the travel reservation networks Galileo and Worldspan, and the consumer travel website Orbitz.
"When we talk about the environment, it's not window dressing, " insists Jeff Clarke, chief executive of Travelport, one of the world's largest travel conglomerates.
Travelport is a data-driven company, updating 4.3 billion fares every day.
It said Wednesday that Sabre, together with Travelport, which is also named in the antitrust suit, make up about 90% of booking made by U.S.-based travel agencies.
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Within a year Travelport hopes to give every single flight a carbon rating, taking into account the plane, the type of fuel used, and other data points.
Jeff Clarke, chief executive and president of global travel firm Travelport, called the rate cut a "quite decisive move", which "clearly has stemmed the fall" on stock markets around the world.
American has focused energy on disputing the online distribution of its flight tickets with the Global Distribution System Travelport and its affiliated website Orbitz, and the battle has now landed in court.
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Online travel companies Expedia, Kayak, Travelport and Amadeus SA all expressed their interest in ITA after news reports in April that Google and ITA were in talks about a potential acquisition, the people said.
Making the deal work will hinge on making decisions fast, getting buy-in from leaders at both companies, ditching redundant product lines and integrating two different cultures, says Travelport Chief Executive Jeff Clarke, one of two executives who led the HP-Compaq integration team.
American contested in a Fort Worth court in April that Travelport presents a civil antitrust threat to airlines that prefer to directly send its flight information to websites through its own technology, rather than go through a GDS, which aggregates flight data from many air carriers in exchange for regular fees from the airlines.
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