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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.
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 Global Travel Distribution was launched in 1992. In 1990, Delta, Northwest Airlines, and Trans World Airlines formed Worldspan, and in 1993, another consortium (including British Airways, KLM, and United Airlines, among others) formed the competing company Galileo GDS based on Apollo.
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.
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.
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Amadeus, a database developed by Bureau van Dijk of financial and business information on European firms; Amadeus CRS, a computer reservation system used by airlines and travel agencies Amadeus IT Group, a travel and tourism industry transaction processor and owner of Amadeus CRS; Amadeus Press, a publishing house, imprint of Rowman & Littlefield