Green Screen Monopolies: The Archaic Code Controlling Global Travel

When you book a flight online, whether through a travel agency or a major booking website, your transaction is almost certainly processed by a piece of technology built in the 1970s. The entire modern aviation industry is held hostage by a trillion-dollar technological oligopoly: the Global Distribution Systems (GDS). Dominated by just three massive corporations (Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport),...