How You Will Benefit
- 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
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
Miss.Soosy Hopwood ( 17 years ) youngest student to have passed
IATA GDS Fares & Ticketing - amadeus ( Distinction ) from our Academy
Miss. Minolie Fernando, IATA GDS Fares & Ticketing - AMADEUS ( Distinction )
BEST PERFORMANCE STUDENT - September 2010 Exam as per IATA - Montreal
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