iSeatz

July 21, 2010, Shearwater Blog

There is no doubt shopping basket technology is an interesting addition to the airline e-commerce landscape, and one that airlines have been requesting for years. I always hear people over-simplifying the issue by asking why can’t airline websites be more like Amazon. Well we may not be there yet, but clearly what iSeatz is doing with KLM is a step in the right direction.

July 17, 2010, EyeforTravel

KLM.com has become the first website to utilise iSeatz’s In-Path Plus technology platform. This new full-service approach are aimed at materially decreasing time to market, launch costs, and total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the implementation.

July 16, 2010, Trading Markets

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced on Thursday the launch of its enhanced website using the In-Path Plus technology platform from iSeatz, a provider of customised online travel and entertainment solutions.

May 18, 2010, Tonic

CEO Kenneth Purcell, who runs iSeatz, a New Orleans technology company that sells software to clients in travel and entertainment, says locating it in a tough neighborhood in his hometown as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina gives the company "social capital" that attracts talent and business partners.

May 6, 2010, Businessweek

The Inner City 100 is an annual ranking of the fastest-growing inner-city companies in the country. Watch selected videos by ICIC of nine winning companies from across the country. No. 2: iSeatz: interview with Kenneth Purcell.

May 6, 2010, New Orleans CityBusiness

Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City said three New Orleans companies have been named to the 2010 Inner 100 list of the fastest-growing inner-city companies in the U.S. iSeatz won second place, NewBath sixth and L&R Security Services 72nd.

April 26, 2010, Everything PR

If you tried to access Expedia today, you were most likely welcomed with a screen that reads: "We are building a better travel site...This comes less than three weeks after Orbitz announced a partnership with iSeatz that had the purpose to build better user engagement as well as better monetization schemes for suppliers.

April 8, 2010, Travel Daily News

Orbitz Worldwide announced an exclusive, multi-year partnership with New Orleans-based iSeatz to develop customized private label and in-path travel solutions that will revolutionize the travel distribution landscape.

April 7, 2010, EyeforTravel

Orbitz has combined its application programming interface (API) capabilities and inventory of its suppliers with the iSeatz OneView platform.

April 7, 2010, Everything PR

In business news for travel, booking giant Orbitz has penned a deal with New Orleans-based iSeatz to develop a customized private label and travel solutions intended to revolutionize the travel distribution landscape.

April 6, 2010, Associated Press

Orbitz, an online travel reservation site, will provide iSeatz clients - such as Delta Air Lines and Amtrak - access to its network of more than 85,000 hotels, 15 major car rental companies, 5,500 tourist spots and others.

April 6, 2010, Tnooz

Orbitz Worldwide is making a hoped-for big push into the private-label distribution business through what it describes as an exclusive partnership with iSeatz.

April 6, 2010, New Orleans CityBusiness

New Orleans-based iSeatz and Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide today announced an exclusive, multiyear partnership in which Orbitz will be iSeatz's exclusive online travel agency supplier - a deal expected to add jobs at iSeatz.

April 6, 2010, MSN Money

Orbitz Worldwide announced a multi-year partnership with iSeatz to develop customized private label and in-path travel solutions.

December 31, 2009, TheStreet.com

Kenneth Purcell, CEO of iSeatz, which handles online reservations for companies like Delta and MasterCard, hopes to fulfill two burning desires: first, "continue to expand iSeatz internationally (by creating jobs) and bringing global attention to my hometown of New Orleans."

December 29, 2009, Examiner.com

Many businesses have some interesting thoughts about growing their businesses. Kenneth Purcell is CEO and Founder of the New Orleans based tech leader iSeatz. Purcell is looking to the global marketplace to sustain growth. "By doing so, create new jobs, sustain iSeatz' rapid growth and bring global attention to my hometown of New Orleans."

October 14, 2009, EyeforTravel

Does Offering More Than Just Seats Result in More Revenue? This is the complex question that iSeatz CEO, Kenneth Purcell, tackles as a featured contributor to the leading travel industry website, EyeforTravel. Kenneth’s article also offers best practices for making the most of out your ancillary revenue strategy.

September 28, 2009, Travel Weekly

In the latest signal that some airlines are bolstering their direct-to-consumer channels, Air France-KLM partnered with New Orleans-based iSeatz to offer consumers on KLM.com the ability to book hotels, car rentals, airport parking and transfers in addition to airline tickets. The deal marks iSeatz's first foray into Europe.

September 28, 2009, Airline Weekly

Air France/KLM, which seems to be thinking up new a la carte policies as well, is already getting aggressive with generating ancillary third-party sales on its multiple websites. KLM is now teaming with iSeatz, a New Orleans-based company that enables users of airline websites to buy an expanded range of offerings from roughly 2,000 product and service providers.

September 24, 2009, M-Travel

Air France-KLM will work in partnership with iSeatz to create and implement one-stop shopping on its carriers’ sites, beginning with the launch of an enhanced KLM.com and followed by the re-launch of Martinair.com.

September 24, 2009, EyeforTravel

Air France-KLM has chosen iSeatz’s booking engine as it plans to widen its product portfolio through klm.com. Air France-KLM will use the iSeatz OneView platform, a proprietary content and inventory aggregation application.

September 22, 2009, New Orleans CityBusiness

New Orleans-based online travel reservation service iSeatz announced today that it has kicked off international expansion plans with a partnership with Air France-KLM. Air France-KLM will work with iSeatz to create and implement one-stop shopping on its carriers' sites, beginning with the launch of an enhanced KLM.com and followed by the relaunch of Martinair.com.

September 22, 2009, The Times-Picayune

iSeatz, a New Orleans company that runs a travel and entertainment booking engine used by restaurants, hotels and airlines, has formed a strategic partnership with Air France-KLM. iSeatz will run KLM’s website, providing the booking engine that passengers will use to book tickets, select seats and purchase other travel products.

August 31, 2009, The Takeaway

This week, we'll be looking at New Orleans four years after Katrina. It's now the fastest growing large city in America, and today we talk to three residents who are making new beginnings in the city. Our guest Allen Darnell is the COO of iSeatz, a software development company based in New Orleans. The company had to move to New York after the storm, but has now returned to New Orleans.

August 25, 2009, The Wall Street Journal

Four years after Hurricane Katrina's devastation, New Orleans is experiencing a rebirth of entrepreneurship. Small-business owners who left are now coming back, driven by a sense of mission to help the struggling city and to take advantage of generous tax breaks. Kenneth Purcell, chief executive of iSeatz.com, uprooted the travel-and-entertainment booking company to New York after Katrina. He returned the company's headquarters to New Orleans in January 2008.

August 24, 2009, New Orleans CityBusiness

Stories of local businesses folding as the economy crumbles or abandoning New Orleans for better opportunities have become commonplace, but not all companies are suffering. Chief among these local landmarks is iSeatz, a 10-year-old Internet-based travel and entertainment service provider headquartered on Magazine Street in the Central Business District.

August 17, 2009, New Orleans CityBusiness

For the second year in a row, iSeatz was the fastest growing private company in Louisiana based on its three-year growth rate of 1,983 percent. "What started out 10 years ago in the French Quarter as a fledgling dot-com has steadily grown into a global business that continues to exceed my expectations," iSeatz CEO and founder Kenneth Purcell said.

August 12, 2009, New Orleans CityBusiness

On the list of the 500 fastest-growing companies, New Orleans-based iSeatz and Radiation Technical Services ranked pretty highly, at 67 and 69, respectively.

August 12, 2009, The Times-Picayune

Thirteen New Orleans area companies were ranked on this year's Inc. Magazine list of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the nation, the magazine announced Wednesday. Travel and entertainment booking engine iSeatz was the highest ranked of the bunch.

August 12, 2009, Business Council of New Orleans Region

Local Destination services company, iSeatz, has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the United States for the second straight year.

August 12, 2009, New Orleans CityBusiness

Two New Orleans-based companies have earned spots on Inc. magazine's annual ranking of the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. Online travel and entertainment solutions provider iSeatz has landed at No. 67 on the list, up 427 slots from last year's ranking of 494.

August 1, 2009, 10/12

The dream was to create a village where entrepreneurs could work, play and collaborate together. Now step inside that dream at 643 Magazine St. in New Orleans... Michael Bauer, senior vice president for distribution and supply for iSeatz, says the move was a smart one for the firm, which previously made its home at Canal Place. For one thing, it's an impressive recruiting tool. "This creates a different energy. The people we're bringing in are young and creative. This building has a unique blend of that, which is what we believe makes a successful organization."

July 31, 2009, Fox Business News

Kenneth Purcell is the feature guest on FOX Business Morning’s small business spotlight. Kenneth discusses iSeatz' success story and how it has achieved such large revenue growth over the past few years.

July 23, 2009, Entrepreneur

It was freshly rehabbed, christened the Intellectual Property, and the future started moving in: businesses like TurboSquid, an emerging player in the wild art of 3-D modeling, and iSeatz, the online engine behind major travel and entertainment sites.

July 19, 2009, The Times-Picayune

Earlier this year, the Idea Village and local economic development group GNO Inc. converted the former McGlinchey Stafford building on Magazine Street into the I.P., which now houses six tenants, including TurboSquid, iSeatz and Couhig Partners, a law firm that specializes in intellectual property.

July 19, 2009, Advertiser Talk

CompTIA, the leading trade association for the world's information technology industry, today announced the finalists for the third annual CompTIA SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards. iSeatz was named a finalist in the Most Innovative Service/Business Model category.

June 21, 2009,The Times-Picayune

In spite of the struggling national economy the [New Orleans] metro area continues to experience an influx of workers -- many of them younger -- seeking opportunities at some of the entrepreneurial ventures and up-and-coming industries that have taken root since Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans native Kenneth Purcell, 34, who founded the customizable traveling and entertainment online platform iSeatz, has been working with Idea Village since 2003. His company is a testimony to the ability of local entrepreneurial ventures to attract workers from outside the metro area.

May 15, 2009, The Times-Picayune

iSeatz founder and CEO Kenneth Purcell is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Houston & Gulf Coast area. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

May 13, 2009, New Orleans CityBusiness

The online travel reservation service iSeatz is expanding its menu. Its new partnership with TicketNetwork will open nearly 80,000 events in 30 countries to the airline and credit card clients who use iSeatz to offer services.

May 5, 2009, Ticket News

TicketNetwork Direct, the B2B product service division of TicketNews parent company TicketNetwork, Monday announced it signed a strategic partnership deal with iSeatz, a global "provider of customized online travel and entertainment solutions." The partnership will allow the companies to integrate their proprietary technologies to provide tickets to events throughout the world through the iSeatz online booking platform.

April 17, 2009, The CityBusiness Blog

The five-story Intellectual Property building at 643 Magazine St., home to the McGlinchey Stafford law firm for 25 years, will now house six companies — a roster flavored heavily with entrepreneurial and tech-driven businesses. They include the Carrollton Technology Partners, Couhig Partners law firm, iSeatz, Launch Pad, TurboSquid and The Idea Village, which collaborated with the economic development entity Greater New Orleans Inc. to create a shared space for creative, upstart businesses.

April 13, 2009, The Times-Picayune

A collection of technology and startup companies started moving last month into the former McGlinchey Stafford building on Magazine Street, launching what they hope will become a hub for recruiting and retaining young, entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans. Six anchor tenants have either leased or agreed to lease space inside the building, including Carrollton Technology Partners, TurboSquid, Launch Pad and iSeatz.com, the city's only Inc. Magazine 500 company.

March 23, 2009, The Times-Picayune

New Orleans native Kenneth Purcell, whose company iSeatz grew from a million venture to a nearly million company in five years, said he moved his company back to New Orleans, after a temporary exodus to New York following Katrina, because he wanted to be a player in the area's resurgence.

March 12, 2009, The Times-Picayune

Thomas J. Pennison, Jr. has been named chief financial officer of iSeatz, a New Orleans company that provides online travel and entertainment booking engines. Pennison, a native of New Orleans, will oversee all aspects of iSeatz' corporate finance. He previously worked for Pennison Consulting, LLC, a firm that he founded.

February 9, 2009, The Wall Street Journal Blog

Fares may be falling and passengers may be staying home more often, but airlines expect “ancillary revenue” to continue to soar for them this year.

iSeatz commented: As more and more carriers look for new ways to create a stream of ancillary revenue – especially during the tough market realities of today – it’s important to recognize that airline ancillary revenue strategies do not have to only include a la carte pricing, which may be perceived to create “extra fees” for passengers.

January 21, 2009, Shearwater Blog

In a perfect world they probably would have seen I was travelling on a full economy fare and tried to push a more expensive hotel to me, but it wasn’t until I click on the link that I realize the reason for KLM pushing one hotel maybe is not quite as ingenious as I first gave them credit for. I assumed they would get an override or maybe have negotiated a paid advertising deal with the IBIS chain. Whilst this may be true, it is when you click on the link that you see the way they have integrated iSeatz into a frame on KLM.com and it was here that I started to think there was maybe a different reason not to promote search.

December 1, 2008, Buhlerworks

During the recent [PhoCusWright] conference I had the opportunity to talk to some companies that were not presenting at the Travel Innovation Summit or on the Center Stage but offer innovative solutions that have already, or will in future, appear on our radar screens: iSeatz has morphed from what initially was a restaurant booking service to a technology provider for all kinds of ancillary services that provide incremental revenue to a range of companies as diverse as Amtrak, KLM, Air Canada, MasterCard and Priceline.

November 20, 2008, Tips from the T-List

The PhoCusWright 2008 “Perfect Mini Storm” session was fascinating, and it featured a great panel of industry titans. Doug Quinby hosted, and Tina Fitch (ezRez), Rod Cuthbert (Viator Inc), Kenneth Purcell (iSeatz), and Ranjan Singh (Isango!). This article is a summary of the session with some thoughts at the end.

October 29, 2008 Inc. Magazine

Indeed, New Orleans even boasted a company on this year's Inc. 500 list, iSeatz. After riding out Hurricane Katrina from the top of a high rise, iSeatz's CEO Kenneth Purcell temporarily moved his company, which creates travel and entertainment booking sites for corporations like Mastercard and Delta, to New York until his hometown was fully operational again. Last year, he brought iSeatz back its roots. "There's tremendous opportunity now for people to come into a place that's basically a clean slate."

October 22, 2008 New Orleans CityBusiness

New Orleans-based iSeatz has expanded its online travel services beyond airlines to include rail travel through Amtrak. Amtrak.com features iSeatz OneView, which synchronizes a passenger's multiple reservations and cancellations in real time and enables passengers to manage all of the components of their trip, online and offline.

September 9, 2008 ABC Action News

If you have never been stuck in an airport due to a flight delay, consider yourself lucky. Flight delays are increasing all across the country. That's something insurance companies and even airlines are now banking on. Some examples include Air Canada, which now offers passengers a plan called On My Way. Customers get access to a special phone number connecting them to an agent to help them secure another flight, hotel accommodations.

September 2, 2008 Cyberguy

Cyberguy Kurt reports live from New Orleans for the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Kurt not only survived being trapped in New Orleans during the storm, he's now uncovering a trend that has some tech companies choosing New Orleans over Silicon Valley. Kurt interviews iSeatz' Kenneth Purcell to learn how he and his company are surviving the disaster.

September 2, 2008 Forbes

If Gustav strikes with the force first predicted, it will become even harder to pitch the Big Easy as a destination for company headquarters or major offices. The arrival of technology companies and creative professional firms that value lower labor costs and possess mostly intellectual capital has been encouraging to the economy. About a dozen of these companies have established headquarters or a major office in the city, including Iseatz, Turbo Squid and the New Orleans Exchange.

August 29, 2008 DailyVista

Customized online travel and entertainment solutions provider iSeatz adds executive to help continue growth, according to the company. Michael Bauer joins iSeatz as senior vice president of distribution and supply.

August 24, 2008 The Times-Picayune

New Orleans was not without the very businesses it is now trying to attract before the storm. Perhaps the best example of a technology-based company in the city is iSeatz, a travel and entertainment booking engine. iSeatz was recently named to Inc. Magazine's list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Seeing greater opportunity at home, the company returned to New Orleans last year after relocating to New York following Katrina.

August 2008 Inc. Magazine

New Orleans has never been an Inc. 500 hot spot, and Hurricane Katrina didn't help matters. This year, the city has just one Inc. 500 company: iSeatz (No. 494), which builds online corporate travel and entertainment booking engines and recently returned to the Big Easy after two years in New York.

August 21, 2008 The Times-Picayune

Travel and entertainment booking engine iSeatz is ranked No. 494 on this year's Inc. Magazine list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the nation, the magazine announced Wednesday. The New Orleans company is the only Louisiana firm ranked in the top 500. There are 34 other Louisiana companies lower on the list, including eight from the metro area.

July 17, 2008 Modern Agent

iSeatz announced a new stand-alone booking engine developed for Delta Air Lines and available for customers at the airline's website, www.delta.com. This iSeatz-powered, private-label solution offers travelers an even more flexible way to fulfill their travel and entertainment needs. Customers who visit delta.com now have the ability to purchase relevant ancillary travel services with or without the purchase of airline tickets.

May 25, 2008Eye For Travel

Northwest Airlines has enhanced its website NWA.com, focusing on fulfilling consumers wide-ranging travel needs via a full-service booking engine. iSeatz worked closely with Northwest to strategically design and implement this new offering, described as "one of the first of its kind in the travel industry."

May 17, 2008 The Wall Street Journal

Air Canada, a pioneer of a la carte pricing for airlines, worked with a technology company called iSeatz Inc. to create the delay-protection service, and iSeatz Chief Executive Kenneth Purcell says that since the Air Canada launch, iSeatz has entered discussions with several global airlines.

April 7, 2008 Travel Weekly

Everyone is talking about the weather -- and other causes of delays in today's crowded and often-fragile air transportation system -- but Air Canada has decided to do something about it. The airline announced last week it has built an information network that enables it to sell passengers "insurance" that will automatically book and then pay for hotel rooms, transportation and meals if Air Canada strands them in a blizzard of flight cancellations, whether caused by weather or other "irregular operations." Air Canada, which built and operates the service in collaboration with technology and service partner iSeatz, claims that it is unique among air carriers.