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Galileo is a computer reservations system (CRS) owned by Travelport. As of 2000, it had a 26.4% share of worldwide CRS airline bookings. [ 1 ] In addition to airline reservations, the Galileo CRS is also used to book train travel, cruises , car rental, and hotel rooms.
Travicom was a trading name for Travel Automation Services Ltd. When British Airways (who by then owned 100% of Travel Automation Services Ltd) chose to participate in the development of the Galileo system Travicom changed its trading name to Galileo UK and a migration process was put in place to move agencies from Travicom to Galileo.
GDS holds no inventory; the inventory is held on the vendor's reservation system itself. A GDS system will have a real-time link to the vendor's database. For example, when a travel agency requests a reservation on the service of a particular airline company, the GDS system routes the request to the appropriate airline's computer reservations ...
Today, the GDS are run by independent companies with airlines and travel agencies being major subscribers. As of February 2009, there are only a few major GDS providers in the market: Amadeus , Travelport (which operates the Apollo, Worldspan and Galileo systems), Sabre , InteliSys Aviation (which owns amelia RES PSS) and Shares.
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.
On August 21, 2007, the acquisition was completed for $1.4 billion and Worldspan became a part of Travelport GDS, which also includes Galileo and other related businesses. On September 28, 2008, the Galileo and Apollo GDS were moved from the Travelport datacenter in Denver, Colorado to the Worldspan datacenter in Atlanta, Georgia (although they ...
Some GDS systems have a "training pseudo" where agents cannot make live bookings. These restrictions also allow airlines to negotiate fares with a company and restrict it to an individual company. Only those agencies within that pseudo-city code will be able to access and sell the fare. GDS examples are Galileo, Sabre, Amadeus.
The company was formed by Cendant in 2001 following its acquisitions of Galileo GDS for $2.9 billion and CheapTickets for $425 million. [1] [2] In 2004, the company acquired Orbitz for $1.25 billion and Flairview Travel for $88 million. [2] [3] In 2005, the company acquired eBookers for $350 million and Gullivers Travel Associates for $1.1 billion.