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Airline Reporting Corporation: ARC Accreditation Options and Steps to Get It

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Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies.

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How to Get IATA Accreditation for Travel Business: Options and Steps to Take

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Every industry has its own regulator – an authority that sets standards and improves the cooperation inside. The air travel industry is no exception. Its main goal is to regulate distribution-related activities in airlines and commercial aviation such as fare calculations, revenue allocation, and baggage rules.

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Timatic by IATA: Travel Requirements Database, Explained

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The biggest challenge here is creating a standardized, universally accepted, and easily implemented way for travelers, airlines, and airport staff to use in their current workflow. Timatic or Travel Information Manual Automatic is a database of travel requirement rules. Currency Regulations. What is Timatic?

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What is PNR: Passenger Name Record Explained in Details

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Introduced to facilitate the exchange of booking information between airlines, PNRs have become an important component of the travel industry. The reservation data is transmitted to the airline’s central reservation system (CRS). Most airlines don’t run their own CRS. Why airlines need Super PNRs.

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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

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In 2016, the McLaughlin-Sherouse List was published, which ranked all industries in the US according to RegData’s Industry Regulation Index showing the most regulated ones. So, let’s talk about IATA – one of the main regulators of the aviation industry. What is IATA? However, it failed to solve all the problems.

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Connecting Flights: Virtual Interlining Benefits and How to Seize Them

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Say, most air travelers to or from the US have to make at least one transfer en route to their final destination. To meet the popular customer requirement “to fly from anywhere to anywhere” and reduce inconveniences associated with multi-leg journeys, airlines have no other alternative but to cooperate with each other.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

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They basically are distributors for hotels, airlines, and tour companies that profit by taking a fee for each sale. Airline and hotel distribution network. These industry players buy hotel rooms in bulk and sell them to OTAs, travel agents, or even airlines. Airlines via NDC connection. Here’s how it works.

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