October 08, 2026
The give-to-get nature of a software service allowing luxury hotels to access competitors' occupancy data only upon contributing their own should be enough to plausibly outline an age-old illegal information exchange in the more modern digital era, a hotel guest told the Seventh Circuit.
September 15, 2026
Luxury hotel chains and software provider Amadeus IT Group are telling the Seventh Circuit a lower court was right to toss a case accusing the hotels of exchanging sensitive information, saying the allegations are based entirely on the use of a lawful benchmarking service.
March 31, 2026
An Illinois federal court Tuesday tossed a proposed class action from guests accusing luxury hotel chains of using software provided by Amadeus IT Group to exchange future occupancy information, finding that exchanging information on its own does not violate antitrust law.
July 29, 2025
Guests targeting luxury hotel chains for using software provided by Amadeus IT Group to exchange occupancy information told an Illinois federal court the chains have used the software platform to raise room rates in local areas across the country.
June 13, 2025
Hotel chains and their "benchmarking" software provider are telling an Illinois federal judge that the latest version of a proposed price-fixing class action is no better than the one that got dismissed in March, and that the plaintiff still hasn't alleged that the hotel groups ever communicated with each other.