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A formal development arrangement was signed in 1957. The first experimental system went online in 1960, based on two IBM 7090 mainframes in a new data center located in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The system was a success. Up to this point, it had cost $40 million to develop and install ($412 million in 2023).
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.
A mirror image of the passenger name record (PNR) in the airline reservations system is maintained in the GDS system. If a passenger books an itinerary containing air segments of multiple airlines through a travel agency, the passenger name record in the GDS system would hold information on their entire itinerary, while each airline they fly on would only have a portion of the itinerary that ...
Amadeus IT Group, S.A. (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ d eɪ ə s aɪ ˈ t iː /) is a major Spanish multinational technology company that provides software for the global travel and tourism industry. It is the world's leading provider of travel technology that focus on developing software for airlines, hotels, travel agencies, and other travel-related businesses.
Worldspan is a provider of travel technology and content and a part of the Travelport GDS business. It offers worldwide electronic distribution of travel information, Internet products and connectivity, and e-commerce capabilities for travel agencies, travel service providers and corporations.
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.
The MARS-1 train ticket reservation system was designed and planned in the 1950s by the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute, now the Railway Technical Research Institute, with the system eventually being produced by Hitachi in 1958. [6]
This is a list of television shows formerly broadcast on the Kids' WB programming block in the United States. The block launched on September 9, 1995, on The WB and continued after the 2006 United States broadcast TV realignment on The CW until it aired for the final time on May 17, 2008. Kids' WB would be succeeded by The CW4Kids.