ATPCO will use Amazon Web Services to host its flight shopping and distribution platforms.<\/p>\n
The airline fare-filing and retailing service says the move will allow it to modernize its applications to accelerate expansion to airlines and other partners.<\/p>\n
ATPCO is one of the oldest travel technology services in the industry and is owned by a consortium of airlines, allowing them and more than 400 others to host their fares and availability for intermediaries to access.<\/p>\n
It currently processes 289 million fares in its database, as well as more recently providing retail shopping technology through its acquisition of RouteHappy.<\/p>\n
John Murphy, chief information officer at ATPCO, said: “Powering the future of flight shopping demands modern solutions, and this collaboration gets us closer to this vision significantly faster.<\/p>\n
“Working with AWS means ATPCO can drive more innovation, reduce technical debt, and free ourselves from the constraints of legacy systems and infrastructure.”<\/p>\n
ATPCO’s move to the cloud follows similar efforts from three other traditional airline distribution service providers.<\/p>\n
Travelport also inked a deal with AWS in June this year. Sabre signed a 10-year agreement with Google Cloud in January 2020 for hosting of distribution and infrastructure services.<\/p>\n
Amadeus followed suit in late 2020 with an agreement with Microsoft.<\/p>\n