2. About Travelport and Galileo

3. Travelport and the GDS

4. About Travelport
Travelport is one of the largest and most geographically diverse travel companies, dedicated to creating the exceptional travel experiences the world demands.
Travelport is organized around two principal businesses
GTA; a wholesaler of ground content
GDS; Galileo, Worldspan, Shepherd Systems, aiRes & Thor
We also own a majority shareholding in Orbitz Worldwide, which includes a number of leading on-line travel agency brands.

5. Travelport family of brands
60% ownership

6. About Travelport
Travelport is owned by the Blackstone Group of New York, Technology Crossover Ventures of Palo Alto, California and One Equity Partners of New York
A global investment and advisory firm founded in 1985.
Purchased Travelport because it is a strong company with a leadership position in a growing and dynamic industry.
Blackstone doesn’t run the companies it owns – it lets the management of those companies do it.
Travelport operates a devolved business model
each of the three key businesses has its own CEO and management team, and is responsible to deliver products, services and value to their customers
Each business is accountable for their EBITDA performance.
Travelport retains a number of corporate functions in support of the business units.

7. To create exceptional travel experiences
About Travelport
Role of Travelport
Provide corporate governance & stewardship to the businesses in the group.
Support with shared services e.g. human resources, finance, legal, facilities, communications, investor relations, and brand strength.
The Travelport vision
To create exceptional travel experiences
With unmatched global reach, relevance & local expertise, Travelport opens new possibilities and greater value every step of the way. Whether for a traveler, a travel professional or travel supplier, we offer more ways to create & enjoy exceptional travel experiences

8. To be the world’s leading provider of informed travel choice
The Travelport GDS
Our mission
To be the world’s leading provider of informed travel choice
We will achieve it through:
Customer focus; we are passionate about our customers, and our commitments to them are paramount
Honesty and integrity in all we do; how we deliver is as important as what we deliver
Innovation; we are willing to take risks to explore new ideas in support of our customers
Transformation; suppliers are driving change in the industry; we will build on existing strengths to support the new world
We are proud to lead the way to reshape our industry.
We can enable our suppliers to create real value.
We can bring informed travel choice to our customers.
We’ll create a successful future for ourselves and our customers.

9. Why we acquired Worldspan
Build on the strengths of both GDS companies – our products and our great people.
Solidify our GDS position globally
Worldspan positions us well in the USA.
Galileo complements this with a significant international footprint.
Create a leading GDS provider that will meet the changing needs of the travel industry
Scale offers cost savings opportunities for customers.
New innovations due to technology, services and scale.
Strengthen our product set
Worldspan strength in the OTA channel.
Galileo strength in the airline services business, international and MNA channel.

10. Who we are - the Travelport GDS
We are the only truly global GDS with depth and breadth in all key regions.
We operate in 145 countries.
We have world-wide strengths in our people and technology
over 3000 employees including an internationally experienced management team.
more of our technology is operated on new server based architecture,
we continue to score firsts in the products and services we develop.
We have operational scalability.
We can provide greater and broader content.
We can leverage technical innovation of Worldspan and customer-focus of Galileo.
We have an entrepreneurial culture at Worldspan.
We have a high productivity and speed to execution culture at Galileo.
We have strong and positive supplier relationships at both Galileo and Worldspan.
We run the IT infrastructure of 3 of the world’s largest airlines.

11. Who we are: the Travelport GDS leadership team
Bob Coggin Vice Chairman Travelport GDS
Philip Emery Chief Financial Officer
Lee Golding Senior Vice President Human Resources
David Lauderdale Chief Technology Officer
Gordon Wilson
President and CEO Travelport GDS
Kevin Mooney Chief Commercial Officer
Tad Ostrowski General Counsel
Sue Powers Chief Information Officer
Keith Woodcock Senior Vice President New Business Development

12. Galileo and Worldspan Integration update
For Galileo and Worldspan agency customers it is business as usual, they will continue to use the products they use today.
We will continue to operate the 3 GDS cores of Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan; there will be no forced migration between systems.
Worldspan and Galileo customers should continue to deal with their current contacts and service channels (sales, help desk, accounts etc.).
The Worldspan GDS product will maintain its brand name; its brand identity will be changed to reflect it’s ownership by Travelport with the Travelport style logo.

13. Galileo and Worldspan Integration – What to expect
The acquisition will allow us to move forward more quickly to realize our vision to be the world's leading supplier of informed travel choice
Travelport GDS will work towards increasing customer opportunity to access broader content and innovative products, with the accuracy and security in transactions that we have always had.
We are currently assessing the opportunities that would most benefit our suppliers, subscribers and partners; more information will be shared over the next few months

14. Galileo and Worldspan Integration – What to expect
Examples of what you can expect are:
Enhanced Air Shopping - to provide traditional and online travel agents with the richest response of informed travel choice.
Common Availability Cache - to provide competitive shopping results while reducing volume of search transactions
Rapid Reprice – to further expand Worldspan’s industry-leading exchange and refund automation to manage the complex and time-consuming process of airline refunds and exchanges, increasing efficiency for the airline and agency.
Local content – to expand availability of Galileo's local content (non-GDS) and associated technologies (such as Galileo Leisure, Galileo Rail and other locally developed products), enhancing content for all our customers.
Car and Hotel - combining existing technologies of both GDS's will improve functionality and provide richer content and greater choice for customers.

15. Galileo and Worldspan Integration – Want to know more?
will be regularly updated with integration news

16. The world’s leading provider of informed travel choice
Our Commitment
Integrating of our businesses - valuing the best of both.
Be the game changer of the travel industry.
Be the partner of choice for our customers through:
Technology Leadership
Technology that supports today’s functionality and tomorrow’s innovations that help our customers reach success with tools that boost both distribution and profitability.
Global Reach
Across more than 145 countries and through our network of local GDS professionals, we share extensive experience, privileged relationships, and a passion for travel to help our customers succeed in the global travel market .
Content Leadership
With unparalleled depth and breadth of content, we offer more ways to create tailored travel experiences.
We are on a journey to become
The world’s leading provider of informed travel choice

17. Thank You
Questions?