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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

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Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers. Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. 24/7 customer support.

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How to Choose a GDS: Amadeus vs Sabre vs Travelport

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A Global Distribution System , or GDS , is a computer network operating as a middleman between travel agents and numerous travel service providers. That is why all of the three major Global Distribution Systems that we’ll later discuss asks for a certified travel agent. The certification is obligatory.

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Host Travel Agencies: Why You Need Them and How to Choose the Best Option

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Roughly, hosts act as middlemen between the network of travel retailers, often with no experience, and travel suppliers. “A A host travel agency is an accelerator,” — explains the idea Ernesto Sigg Rodríguez, Chief Commercial Officer at Fitbooktravel , that provides technology consulting services for online travel businesses. “As

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

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This is the information you can act upon – customize offers to meet the exact, known needs of each traveler. Unlike EDIFACT, able to submit only fares and schedules to OTAs, the NDC standard allows for delivering comprehensive flight information to travel agents. Rich content integration. Order management.

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Airline Ticketing: Key Functions, Steps, and Players Involved

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This article aims to explain how ticketing works, what a ticket is, which accreditations an agency should have in order to issue tickets, and how to sell flight seats without having major certifications. Then it collects a traveler’s data to create a Passenger Name Record (PNR). What is an airline ticket? Flight booking.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

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Retailing platform. A carrier can either hire a tech team to develop a customized platform complaint with the NDC Standard or connect its reservation system to a third-party solution like FLX NDC API , t-Retail or NDC Gateway. ONE Order certification — a program, announced by IATA in January 2019. Source: Amadeus.

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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Tour operators are travel companies that devise itineraries, create corresponding multi-component tour packages, sell them to travel agents or travelers, and make sure everything goes well from the start to the end of the trip, having full responsibility to the traveler. Tour operators: providing turn-key services.

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