Airline Technology and Distribution

We have over 25 years of experience in negotiating airline technology, distribution, and strategic alliance arrangements, and we have supported some of the most innovative examples of distribution model change in the airline industry.

Clients across the airline industry turn to Covington because of our ability to provide integrated, strategic, and business-oriented legal advice across the broad range of issues they face. Our global team of commercial, technology and IP transactions lawyers track developments in airline technology and distribution and help clients in negotiating their most complex transactions.

We have extensive experience in competitive procurement of PSS and OOSD systems and future proofing the long-term contracts for these critical systems. We worked on distribution agreements with various travel intermediaries, including the GDS, and have experience with all the commercial models in the industry.

We are very knowledgeable about market practices, data privacy and security, intellectual property, and regulatory issues, and we seamlessly integrate this knowledge into the advice we provide to our transactional clients. We have represented providers and owners as well as licensees and customers of data, technology, and IP in many cross-border transactions.