Travel and Tourism
IATA Global Distribution Systems Fares and Ticketing Course
How You Will Benefit
- Apply mileage system pricing skills to international routings
- Read and interpret GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing
- Define common fare construction terms and abbreviations
- Identify and price different journey types (including one-way, round/circle trip, Round-the-World and mixed class journeys
- Use the IATA Fare Formula to correctly price a journey
- Apply global indicators to routings
- Assess and apply air fare taxes
- Read, interpret and apply fare rules
- Converting between different currencies and NUCs
- Apply all minimum-fare rule checks in pricing itineraries
- Use side trips
- Add a manual fare to a GDS booking file
- Know how to use GDS to issue tickets for manually-priced reservations
- Apply the Lowest Combination Factor to quote the most competitive air fare
- Apply rule exceptions
- Construct and read a linear fare construction
- Decode and interpret each field of an e-ticket
- Issue electronic tickets
Designed for
- Entry-level students
- Travel consultants
- Personnel of airlines, tour operators and consolidators
- Internet travel suppliers
Course Content
- 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.
Note:
Customers in Europe may contact training.europe@iata.org for information.
365(internet format) / 435(CD-ROM format)
300 (internet format) / 370 (CD-ROM format)
SHIPPING FEES:
- Canada and USA: USD 25
- All other countries, except Canada/USA: USD 38