GDS Air Fare & Ticketing Course

This course covers the basics and advanced airline fare construction principles, and CRS entries to price air journeys and issue tickets. Students can have choice out of Amadeus, Galileo and Apollo used by travel industry professionals to instantly confirm and manage flights, hotel, car and other reservations. It also includes electronic booking module.

Course Contents:

Study one of these three GDS systems:

- Amadeus,

- Galileo or

- Sabre.

Introduction to air fares, analysing itineraries and retrieving fares from a GDS. Introduction to the mileage system. Practice pricing one way and circle trips. Limitations on indirect travel, side trips and surface sectors. Backhauls, circle trips, journeys in different classes of service and alternative fare break points. Lowest combinations, round-the-world journeys, sales indicators and minimum checks. Currency conversion, taxes and practice ticketing.