REVIEWER FOR PRELIMS IN TOUR 13 - TICKETING 2000 - We launched an innovative web-based tool

-They launched a new browser-based reservation tool:

Amadeus Amadeus Pro Web.
A neutral and global computerized distribution and - British Airways and Qantas partnered with them to
reservation system for the travel industry, used in develop the next generation customer IT management
both, travel agencies and airline sales offices solutions. They opened a support and development
worldwide.​ site near London’s Heathrow Airport and announced
plans to open another in Sydney, Australia.
1987 - Amadeus was born! - This evolution lead them to establish a new business
- Officially born on October 21st, when Amadeus division: Airline IT.
Marketing was founded by 4 airlines; Air France, Iberia,
Lufthansa and SAS. PROVEN FUTURE-PROOF TECHNOLOGY
Headquarters were in Madrid, Spain, and the first 1. Madrid (Spain) - headquarters
employees came from these 4 carriers.
2. Sophia Antipolis ( France) - Worldwide
- The founders announced their vision for an
independent and neutral global distribution system Development Centre
(GDS). They committed to a combined investment of
3. Erding (Germany) - Main Data Operation Centre
almost $300 million.

1989 - The travel market opened

- They unveiled the first prototype of Amadeus Pro, CONVERSION
the revolutionary interface that could save travel
agents 50-80% of time and effort when making flight, Help Pages
car or hotel reservations.
They signed with their first Asian partner, Thai Airlines.

1990 - New data processing center

- After 4 years in the market, they had over 550
employees from 38 countries and they celebrated the
opening of their data processing center.
- Amadeus Fare Quote was now used in France,
Belgium and selected African countries while using the
Air France reservation system infrastructure.

1991 - Opened up a world of cross-functional solutions

to our users
-New Air content offered their users a worldwide HELP PAGES
access to schedule displays, extensive flight solutions, HE – Help pages
and unbiased rankings, linked to 45,000 terminals.
HESIGN - Explanation to Sign-in
-Amadeus Pro content was officially launched. It
provided travel agency customers user-friendly MD - Move Down Pages
interfaces to their central system and products.
GGAIS - Information PAges
1992 - The start of a new era GGAPT - Sample Airport Inormation
- Their first PNR was created on January 7th at 2:47 am
GGAPTJFK - To display sample airport information
and it was the beginning of millions of bookings.
- They launched their Amadeus Cars and Amadeus GGAPTJFKPARK or GP2 - Car park information
Hotels platform, which offered easy access to
information on more than 10,000 car rental locations
Encode: City / Airport
and hotel properties worldwide.
Ex. DAN BANGKOK
Where:
1996 - Processed 300 million bookings
DAN - transaction code
-They created a website for travelers,
BANGKOK - name of city
www.amadeus.net, which offered consumers the
opportunity to find out more about airline availability
Decode: City / Airport
and destination information.
Ex. DAC RIO
-In Belgium, they introduced Amadeus Pro Tempo to
Where:
the local market.
DAC - transaction command
-This year, they reached 300 million bookings on their
RIO - city code
platform!
DECODE EQUIPMENT
1997 - Our 10 year anniversary!
Ex. DNECRJ
- After 10 years of successful business leadership, they
Where:
had more than 1300 employees from 45 different
DNE - transaction code
countries.
CRJ - equipment
- Their new central Miami office opened in January
and welcomed 85 new staff.
- In addition, Icelandair launched the first Amadeus-
powered travel website.
ENCODE / DECODE Availability options
DC Country DC JAPAN Ex. AN 26NOV MNLSIN /ASQ
VE Where:
DNA Airline DNA IBERIA /A - airline
220 SQ - airline code
THA
Ex. AN 11OCT MNLSYD /KY
DNS State and Provinces DNS AU
Where:
DNE Equipment DNE 747 /K - class of service
Y - booking class
OTHERS
DD MAD - display local time CONNECTING POINT
FQC100USD/PHP - currency Ex. AN30DECMNLJFK/XHKG -
Where:
X – connecting point
General Information
- 780 airlines Availability option - combination
- 500,000 city pairs Ex. AN 10OCT MNLFRA /ACX /CY
- 3.9 million routings worldwide Where:
- Over 6 million connecting flights /A - airline
- Availability can be requested 361 days in advance /C - booking class
and 3 days in the past
Availability change
Order of flights Or Types of Flights MN - next day
- Non-stop
- Direct flights with stops en route MY - previous day
- Connecting flights with a change of equipment en MPAN - previous availability
route

REQUEST FOR FLIGHT AVAILABILITY DISPLAY Flight information is…

ANIST - Sample today’s availability display
A more detailed information about a specific flight.
2 ways to check:
From availability display >AN06DECMNLSIN
>DO3
By flight number >DOCX751

PARTICIPATING CARRIER AGREEMENT

Detailed information on the access level and function
level of an airline
Availability Neutral Ex. GG PCA TG
Ex. AN 19NOV MNLBKK where:
Where: GG - transaction code
AN - transaction code PCA - Participating Carrier Agreement option
19NOV - departure date
TG - airline code
MNLBKK - city pair

Booking code seats

Seat inventory status
F - First Class
1-9 - Open
J - Business Class
0 or L - Waitlist
W - Premium Economy
R - On request
Y - Economy
C or S - Closed for waitlist

CODE SHARE FLIGHTS

Two airlines having an agreement. This is also known
as commercial duplication. The marketing carrier is
different from the operating carrier.