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American Airlines and Teleregister Company developed a number of automated airline booking systems known as Reservisor. it first version was an electromechanical version of the flight boards introduced for the "sell and report" system that was installed in American's Boston reservation office in February 1946.
AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, spun off its controlling stake in Sabre Corporation in 2000 to form an independent company. [11] [12] [13]In 2001, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) purchased Sabre Holdings' airline hardware and communications business, [14] and Sabre began migrating its old mainframe for air travel shopping and pricing to HP NonStop and Linux servers. [15]
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.
Amadeus CRS is the largest GDS provider in the worldwide travel and tourism industry, with an estimated market share of 37% in 2009. [40] As of December 2010, over 90,000 travel agencies worldwide use the Amadeus system and 58,000 airline sales offices use it as their internal sales and reservations system.
Travel Technology Interactive (also known as TTI) is a French-based IT software company that provides software to the airline industry. It is specialized in IT software for the management of airlines. It provides an Airline Reservations System with an integrated Global Distribution System (GDS).
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.
Amadeus also provides New Generation departure control systems to airlines. [1] Amadeus IT Group is a transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry. The company is structured around two key related areas—its global distribution system and its "IT Solutions" business area. Amadeus is a member of IATA, OTA and SITA.
A Passenger Service System or PSS is a network of software applications that help airlines manage all the passenger-related operations from ticketing to boarding. [1] The PSS usually comprises an airline reservations system , an airline inventory system and a departure control system (DCS).