There is clearly something in the air in GDS-Land, perhaps fuelled by the apparent green shoots of recovery appearing in the ground.
Now it's the turn of Sabre to shed a small chink of light on its corporate plans for the next year - and it includes a possible invitation to the GDS IPO party also being planned by each of its rivals.
This latest twist follows reports about Travelport seeking a public listing and Amadeus doing nothing at all to deny rumours of an Euro 8 billion potential floatation in Madrid.
Sabre Holdings' CEO Sam Gilliland chose the Dallas Morning News to give a rare and what turned out to be extremely open interview. But given the recent mutterings from the Travelport and Amadeus camps, the timing is probably not coincidental.
The transcript is in two parts, available here and here, but the key point regarding an IPO is here:
When asked about the benefits of being private [owned by Texas Pacific and Silver Lake] during the economic downturn, Gilliland talks about how easier, for example, it has been to make significant investments without the distraction and scrutiny of being a public company.
But he ends with this:
"It has been really positive from those perspectives and the question will be at what point do we decide to be a public company once again.
"I think for us we will probably - who knows, is probably the best answer? It will depend a lot on where the market is and where the economy is but I do also think that we'll be looking for revenue growth before we do it.
"We don't just want to tell a cost story when we're out there in the public market. We need to be able to tell a revenue growth story and we'll be looking for those types of indicators before we would consider an IPO."
Gilliland says later that a rule of thumb includes the likelihood or not of "enplanement growth" at 1.5 times that of GDP growth for Sabre, but hints that any final decision will be very closely tied to the fortunes of the wider industry.
"We'd like there to be industry growth as opposed to decline.
"We can fairly confidently say in first couple of quarters next year we'll see earnings growth and revenue growth. But on other hand we want to be able to look forward to be able to have our hands over our hearts and say that we think over the next 12 months or 24 months this is what we think it's going to look like.
"If we can convey that message it's probably time for us to take a look at going back out there."
NB: The interview also includes some interesting insight into the failed American Airlines technology bid from August 2009.