Nicholas Bredimus

Nick Bredimus says encryption can be broken

...Encryption can be broken, reminded Nick Bredimus, president of Dallas-based Bredimus Systems, which offers airlines consulting and technology relating to GDSs. "The PNR address can be defeated due to the natural patterns in the fields and the number of known PNR addresses available in clear text," Bredimus said. "Code breaking is quite easy in this case. I am assuming that there would be no legal issue preventing an MIDT user from decrypting the field."

Crunch For GDS - Nick Bredimus quoted

Dallas-based travel distribution consultant Nick Bredimus discusses the biggest single threat to distribution companies: "Airlines still think that booking fees are too high. If there is any way they can circumvent GDSs, they will."

Bredimus believes most of the reason for the high booking fees is the lack of viable alternatives. "GDSs are just opportunistic," he says. "As long as airlines are dependent on them, they can charge what they want. Airlines must invest on their own in alternative systems that are not the GDS model."

Changing Roles (for travel agencies) - Nick Bredimus quoted

...According to Nick Bredimus, a Dallas-based consultant, the genesis of this evolution dates back to the conclusion by airlines, in the mid-1990s, that agents had become a controllable cost rather than a necessity. This occurred, he believes, when airlines began to rebel against two types of agency-related distribution expenses: global distribution system booking fees, which he says have effectively increased by 10% to 20% annually over the past decade; and rising travel agency commissions....

ATW article on Revenue Integrity - Nick Bredimus quoted

...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 shot" for not installing it. He claims that depending on the size and extent of application, "within a few months they can save $50-$100k and many of them several million dollars. There are no breakthroughs in revenue and yield management offering that payback."...

ValuJet woes may benefit major airlines - Nick Bredimus quoted

``The larger carriers are probably jubilant about it,'' says Nick Bredimus, a travel industry consultant in Dallas. ``ValuJet has been a thorn in their side....

Vendor offers automated system to fight fraud; electronic watchdog designed to spot possible credit card crime. (Bredimus Systems) - Nick Bredimus company

Bredimus Systems Inc has introduced a computer data base called Gotcha! designed to prevent credit card fraud. The company promises to update quarterly its file of suspects involved in credit card crime. Users of the data base must also have access to Microsoft Windows or a dedicated microcomputer. The software's price is $249, plus $99 a year for the data and updates.

COPPELL, Texas -- Bredimus Systems Inc. here has developed a data base product designed as an electronic watchdog against credit card fraud....

Continental leads CRS bypass move - Nick Bredimus quoted

...Some observers deem Continental's various bypass systems somewhat impractical. Nick Bredimus, a Dallas-based airline consultant, says the systems face major obstacles. CRSs pay travel agents substantial fees to use their systems, and he believes agents would be loath to forfeit these in favour of a Continental bypass system. He also says it is doubtful that an airline with a substantial stake in a CRS would want to participate in Continental's bypass system, thus jeopardising the income of both the CRS and itself. However flotations of 18 per cent of Sabre in 1996 and 35 per cent of Galileo last year saw airline owners reduce their holdings, and Amadeus has also discussed an initial public offering....

One-Way Ticket Rip-Off - Nick Bredimus quoted

...That's the view from this side of the ticket counter. But to the airlines and their shareholders, algorithms are their allies. Consultant Nick Bredimus explains that in the early days of the aviation industry, there were only one-way fares. When computers were introduced into the pricing equation, carriers were able to track seat inventory more effectively and predict who might show up for a flight and who wouldn't....

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