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Something much more highly automated was needed if American Airlines was going to enter the jet age, booking many times more seats. [ 3 ] : p.100 During the testing phase of the Reservisor a high-ranking IBM salesman, Blair Smith, was flying on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles back to IBM in New York City in 1953. [ 4 ]
The 1952 Magnetronic Reservisor on display at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum. Starting in 1946, American Airlines developed a number of automated airline booking systems known as Reservisor. Although somewhat successful, American's unhappiness with the Reservisor systems led them to develop the computerized Sabre system used to this day.
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.
Fearful this would place too much power in the hands of agents, American Airlines executive Robert Crandall proposed creating an industry-wide computer reservation system to be a central clearing house for U.S. travel; other airlines demurred, citing fear that United States antitrust law may have been breached.
In airline reservation systems, a record locator is an alphanumeric code used to identify and access a specific record on an airline’s reservation system. An airline’s reservation system automatically generates a unique record locator whenever a customer makes a reservation or booking, commonly known in the industry as an itinerary.
Ticketing details, either a ticket number or a ticketing time limit. Itinerary of at least one segment, which must be the same for all passengers listed. Name of the person providing the information or making the booking. Other information, such as a timestamp and the agency's pseudo-city code, will go into the booking automatically. All ...
A reservation for an itinerary is made in the airline system, either directly by the passenger or by an agent. The itinerary includes all the above details needed for the issuance of an air ticket, except the ticket number. When the reservation is made, a passenger name record (PNR) will be created which is used to manage the reservation and ...
QIK was designed by a startup within Qantas Airways [1] called Qadrant, as a productivity tool for use in the airline's reservation call centres. The software was developed for Qadrant under contract by Tetra Tech Data Systems (a subsidiary of Honeywell ), a small custom software house in San Diego, California. [ 2 ]