IATA GDS Fares and Ticketing
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