GDS Fares and Ticketing

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.
• Good foundation of basic mathematics.

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

Career Opportunities

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

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

• Introduction to air fares, 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 break points
• Lowest combinations, round-the-world journeys, sales indicators and minimum checks