Amadeus IT Group has acquired SkyLink, an AI-native corporate booking platform, as travel technology firms accelerate adoption of conversational automation. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 2021 and based in New York, SkyLink developed an orchestration engine embedded within enterprise tools such as Microsoft Teams and Slack. The system allows employees to book and manage policy-compliant business travel through natural language text or voice prompts. Tens of thousands of bookings have been processed through the platform, signaling early production-scale usage.
Amadeus said it will integrate SkyLink’s conversational framework into its corporate travel portfolio, particularly in North America. The company operates across more than 190 markets and processes billions of search requests annually, positioning itself as a transaction backbone for airlines, hotels, and travel sellers.
The acquisition follows similar AI investments across the sector, including rival Sabre Corporation backing conversational travel tools. As AI moves from pilot programs to embedded infrastructure, vendors are focusing on reliability, compliance, and integration at scale.
