Nicholas Bredimus

Nicholas Bredimus quoted in press release titled Shoved Off Southwest

Dennis Keith discovered the dark side of Southwest Airlines' "freedom" on a trip from Los Angeles to Baltimore two weeks ago. The Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2005 -- consultant had paid $306 for a two-stop flight that took him through Phoenix and Nashville. His itinerary started in the early afternoon and ended at about 10:30 p.m.-a long day on the road, but enough time to get to his meeting the next morning....

...You could blame the computers or the distribution, says Nick Bredimus, an airline consultant. But ultimately, Southwest is the way it is because of its business philosophy.

"Southwest is a unique airline," he says. It goes beyond the peanuts and soda served to passengers, the first-come, first-served boarding, or the crew's irreverent attitude, inspired by Southwest's legendary chief executive, Herb Kelleher....

Nicholas Bredimus quoted in press release titled Out the window (Revenue Integrity Improves at British Airways PLC)

PRWEB) May 19, 2005 -- Airlines spend millions on sophisticated revenue management systems but still let millions more escape owing to lack of revenue integrity Revenue leakage--the gap between the revenue that airlines book and the amount that they eventually receive-is a big problem. Preventing it is especially important in a traffic downturn. And airlines' long-standing inattention to that leakage while simultaneously blaming external forces for all profit problems is disingenuous.

Slowly, revenue managers are acting to stop the drain, developing revenue integrity software designed to enforce ticket- and fare- related rules from the time a PNR is created. Nick Bredimus of Bredimus Solutions in Dallas declares, "Airlines can switch it on very quickly. If senior management knew it was available and saw how simple it is, they'd want someone fired" for not installing it. He claims that depending on the size and extent of application, "within a few months they can save thousands if not millions of dollars"....

Nicholas Bredimus quoted in New York Times article titled Company News; AMR in Venture

LEAD: The AMR Corporation, the parent of American Airlines Inc., will join the Marriott Corporation, the Hilton Hotels Corporation and the Budget Rent-a-Car Corporation to create the world's largest non-airline computerized reservation system. Nick Bredimus, the president of AMR Travel Services Inc., an AMR subsidiary, said the system would be called Confirm and would begin operating in 1991.

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