• Acquire an excellent understanding of the mileage system pricing and know how to interpret and read all GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing
• Know how to identify and price different journey types (including round-the-world journeys and journeys travelled in different classes)
• Understand global indicators
• Understand fare rules and air fare taxes
• Be able to apply all minimum-fare rule checks
• Know how and when to use side trips
• Know how to add a manual fare to a GDS booking file
• Be able to use the IATA/UFTAA Fare Formula to correctly price a journey
• Know how to use a GDS to issue tickets for manually-priced reservations
• Know how to read each field of an ATB ticket
• Know how to use the Lowest Combination Factor
• Be able to construct and read a linear fare construction

• Entry-level students
• Travel consultants
• Personnel of airlines, tour operators and consolidators
• Internet travel suppliers

• 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

IMPORTANT:

This course is available in Internet-based or CD-ROM versions. Both contain identical course content, and both are supported by a course Workbook. 

• If you purchase the Internet-based version, you will receive the course Workbook as a pdf file download to the e-mail address you include on your enrolment form.  No shipping fees apply.  
• If you purchase the CD-ROM version, you will receive a printed course Workbook along with your CD-ROM.  Shipping fees must be included with your payment.   

This course requires the following minimum system requirements: Windows 95, Internet Explorer 5.5, 16MB memory.

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