GDS Fares and Ticketing(Self Study)

The course provides participants with a detailed understanding of the pricing process of a passengers’ journey, understands the applicable worldwide fare rules, uses the fare formula, and use a GDS to issue airline tickets according to current international standards.

Audience

This program is designed for students who wish to have a career in the airline or travel industry, Personnel of large companies responsible for making travel arrangements, Personnel of airlines, tour operators and Internet travel suppliers.

The following basic skills are required:

• Reading, writing, and speaking in the English language.
• A good foundation of basic mathematics.

Career Opportunities

Executives, consultants, officers, and agents for Airline, Airports, Travel agencies, Ticketing offices, Customer services, Ground handling agencies.

Course Outline

Study of one of these three GDS systems: Amadeus, Galileo or Sabre: 

• Introduction to airfares, analyzing 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 breakpoints
• Lowest combinations, round-the-world journeys, sales indicators, and minimum checks