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With a hugely turbulent economic backdrop threatening to throw the airline booking operator Amadeus's IPO off course, its Morgan Stanley team had their work cut out to launch the first such European venture since 2008 to be in excess of €1bn.rnTo say that April's initial public offering (IPO) from Amadeus, the airline booking and IT business, encountered a spot of turbulence does not quite do it justice. The deal managed to survive the Greek crisis, the failed IPO of its closest rival and the volcano that shut down Europe, and still landed safely. That's nifty flying.rnAmadeus operates the travel industry's largest 'global distribution system' (GDS), handling seat reservations for more than 460 airlines as well as providing a range of other IT services to carriers. It was formed in 1987 by Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa and SAS, and the first three still have minority stakes in the company.