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  2. Airline reservations system - Wikipedia

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    Since airline reservation systems are business critical applications, and they are functionally quite complex, the operation of an in-house airline reservation system is relatively expensive. Prior to deregulation [ clarification needed ] , airlines owned their own reservation systems with travel agents subscribing to them.

  3. Sabre (travel reservation system) - Wikipedia

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    Sabre Global Distribution System, owned by Sabre Corporation, [1] is a travel reservation system used by travel agents and companies to search, price, book, and ticket travel services provided by airlines, hotels, car rental companies, rail providers and tour operators.

  4. Passenger service system - Wikipedia

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    The departure control system (DCS) is the system used by airlines and airports to check-in a passenger. The DCS is connected to the reservation system enabling it to check who has a valid reservation on a flight. The DCS is used to enter information required by customs or border security agencies and to issue the boarding document.

  5. Programmed Airline Reservations System - Wikipedia

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    Programmed Airline Reservations System (PARS) is an IBM proprietary large scale airline reservation application, a computer reservations system, executing under the control of IBM Airline Control Program (ACP) (and later its successor, Transaction Processing Facility (TPF)). Its international version was known as IPARS. [1]

  6. Computer reservation system - Wikipedia

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    Their idea of an automated airline reservation system (ARS) resulted in a 1959 venture known as the Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment (SABRE), launched the following year. [8] By the time the network was completed in December 1964, it was the largest civil data processing system in the world. Other airlines established their own systems.

  7. USAS (application) - Wikipedia

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    USAS was mainly developed for use by airlines. Check-in, reservations, and cargo operations are therefore among its main components.The original USAS applications such as USAS*RES (Reservation System), USAS*CGO (Cargo Application) were written in the early 70s and have been adapted in different forms in varying degrees of customization.

  8. Galileo GDS - Wikipedia

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    Galileo traces its roots back to 1971 when United Airlines created its first computerized central reservation system under the name Apollo. During the 1980s and early 1990s, a significant proportion of airline tickets were sold by travel agents. Flights by the airline owning the reservation system had preferential display on the computer screen.

  9. Reservisor - Wikipedia

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    The booking agent could then tell the sales agent the flight status without walking to the cabinet, as well as immediately offer alternatives if it was sold out. The flight card was only updated when the customer actually bought a seat. The major advantage of this system over the older pegboard was that the signals could be operated remotely.