Comments for Shearwater Blog http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com Innovation & Ancillary Revenue for airline direct sales channels Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Martin Collings http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-911 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:28:17 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-911 Tim, you were actually one of the guys who, unbeknown to you at the time, actually inspired me to start writing back in early 2009. And yes, coming up with various models to try and better explain the rapid changes we were seeing in online travel is something we’ve both done a bit of over the years, so hopefully a couple of them stick.

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Martin Collings http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-910 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:20:27 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-910 Thanks for the support. I’m sure others will fill the void, but I appreciate the comment.

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Tim http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-909 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:50:47 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-909 Martin – congratulations on many years of a very valuable contribution to the travel tech, ancillary, air and general travel blogging scene. I have enjoyed your writing and enjoyed the chances we have had to sit together in restaurants and bars around the world. Great to have you back in Sydney and I look forward to adding another country to a list of lunch/dinner spots.

May the bow tie live forever as a travel analogy

All the best

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Anonymous http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-908 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:14:15 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-908 Martin, I will miss your blog posts. Not many people write on these topics with such insight.

Sebastian

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Martin Collings http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-899 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:31:22 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-899 Matt, it means a lot to get nice messages such as yours from people I don’t know personally, but who enjoyed reading my work. I had someone yesterday saying they could not see my giving up frequent blogging and predicting I’d be back in 3-6 months, but at this stage I’ll just focus on trying to learn as much about payments as I know about airline e-commerce; with the occasional Tnooz piece thrown in to keep myself somewhat “social.”

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Matthew T http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-898 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:55:48 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-898 Hi Martin,
Thanks for all your posts over the last few years. I’ll miss your insights and commentary on the airline side digital / online / e-Commerce. I’ll keep an eye out for your posts on TNooz. Goodluck in the new role.
Matthew T.

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Martin Collings http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-897 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:03:11 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-897 All the airline guys are coming out of the woodwork now that I’m leaving.

Tomislav, I hope you continue with the relentless enhancement of online functionality, as you were a great customer for Amadeus to have, and also a great person to have reading this blog. You clearly showed a number of other airlines that being small was no reason not to innovate online.

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Tomislav Tepes http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-896 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:44:14 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-896 Martin, thank you for all information, guidance and great post.
Thx and BRGS

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Martin Collings http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-895 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:00:06 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-895 The lengths I go to in order to keep a customer happy…

Thanks for reading, and also for sharing your airline experience with Twitter when you wrote a guest post a while back. I enjoyed working with you.

]]> Comment on Leaving Amadeus and taking a break from blogging by Lennart van Opbergen http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/leaving-amadeus-and-taking-a-break-from-blogging/#comment-894 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:10:51 +0000 http://shearwaterblog.wordpress.com/?p=3175#comment-894 Martin, thank you for your wonderful blog posts over the years. Being new to the airline industry around the time you started your blog, they sure gave me a lot of very useful insights. Also your dancing skills will be missed at the Amadeus conferences… .
I’m sure you’ll do a great job at Mastercard.

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