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Airmax is one of the leading airline reservation system development company. We develop comprehensive airline

reservation system through the GDS integration and thirty part flight consolidators’ API integration.

Important airlines terms Introduction to Airline Reservation system Overview of Global Distribution Systems

Overview

Aircraft: A vehicle capable of air transport, such as an airplane, a helicopter, etc.

Airline: A company that provides air transport services for passengers or freight under license from a recognized public authority. Also known as Carrier in some geographies

Scheduled airline: An airline that operates its flights to a fixed schedule, i.e. flight timings are fixed

Charter airline: An airline whose flights do not have a fixed schedule

Cabin: A class of service usually identified by a unique set of services offered (e.g. Economy, Business, First, etc.)

Flight: A trip made by an aircraft between two geographical locations Itinerary: A route of journey proposed by a traveler

Ticket: (Usually) a printed piece of paper or card showing that its holder has the right to use services on one or more specific flights

Travel agency: A business that attends to the travel needs of an individual or a group of individuals

Important terms

Airline reservation System is a computerized system Enhancing the relationship between customers and airline

agencies Convenient for the customers to book the flights Allow the customers to access database and allow new

customers to sign up for online access

Introduction

The primary goal of this project is to help the passengers make flight reservation.

The system will be able to find all the flights fulfilling a passenger’s needs.

search all flights with a given origin and destination.

The arrival and departure times, the price, and the flight number for each flight.

The passenger will decide the flight reservation based on the displayed information.

Goal

Airlines need to maintain multiple types of information Route information: Covers the destinations served by the airline Aircraft information: Information on the aircrafts used by the

airline Schedule information: Covers information on days and times on

which the flights operated by the airline are scheduled to run Fare information: Prices for various flights Reservation information: Passenger and cargo reservations,

including information on passenger tickets

General information

In 1950 American Airlines decided to set up a computerized system that would allow real-time access to all its data across all its offices and travel agents

As a result, Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, or SABRE was born in 1964. It was the first computerized airline system (CRS) in the world

SABRE was developed as a joint effort between IBM and American Airlines When created, SABRE ran on two IBM 7090 mainframes. The

system was upgraded to IBM S/360 in 1972

In the 1970s and 80s multiple CRSs came up in North America

The first non-North American CRS was developed jointly by Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia and SAS in 1987. It was named Amadeus

History

A CRS typically provides the following functions Flight schedule information: Days and times for flights

operated by the airline Availability information: Seat availability on a flight by

service class, i.e. Economy, Business or First class Fare quotes: A consolidated fare for an itinerary based on

flight, day, time, service class and passenger types chosen

Reservation information: Seat bookings Ticketing information: Generating and storing tickets Refunds and cancellations: Cancellation of existing

reservations and tickets

Function provided by CRS

Although the CRSs simplified the task of maintaining airline data, they brought in new problems In order to handle increasing passenger traffic, large computer

systems were required for CRSs. This created a cost burden for airlines, especially the smaller ones which did not have enough money to spend on expensive mainframe technology

CRSs were airline specific. This required travel agencies who wanted to sell tickets for multiple airlines to have individual connections to each airline separately

Availability and fare searches across airlines was not possible since each airline had its own CRS. Since most passengers were interested in purchasing the cheapest fare rather than a specific airline, travel agents had to spend inordinate amount of time to determine cheapest fares across airlines

History behind GDS

Life of a travel agent before GDS

Travel agent

Mainframe connectivity

Mainframe connectivity

Mainframe connectivity

Airline CRS

Airline CRS

Airline CRS

Flight module

Hotel module

Transfer module

Increased Bookings through GDS System Integration

More hits on clients’ website and thus more conversion

GDS Booking System

GDS System

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