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Contact details for the travel agent or airline office. 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.
An itinerary may be entered into the system by a passenger, travel agent or airline employee. The record locator typically appears on the itinerary provided to the passenger, and may be described as a confirmation number, reservation number, confirmation code, booking reference, booking code, or vendor locator, or other description, depending ...
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. Today, the GDS are run ...
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 ...
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.
MSN Travel (previously Bing Travel, Live Search Farecast, and Farecast.com) is an airfare prediction website in the computer reservations system industry. It premiered to the public as Farecast on May 15, 2007. Until 2014, it offered predictions regarding the best time to purchase airline tickets. [1] [2]
An agency debit memo (ADM) is a notice sent, normally by an airline, to a travel agent, requiring the recipient to pay a sum of money to the sender. A frequent reason for issue of an ADM is when an air travel ticket has been issued and its rules have not been fully complied with, such as when the fare rules require tickets to be issued within three days of creating the PNR or reservation, and ...
The International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) is a Miami-based trade association in the United States representing the interests of its member companies and the U.S. travel distribution network (travel agencies). [1] [2] It is an independent department of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [3]