Reservation+Systems

=**Reservation Systems for Transportation**= by Rachel
 * Business & Employment**
 * Transportation Systems**

__Reservation systems used for:__
Source: [] Date accessed: 11/15/09
 * Airline Hosting System and Services
 * Airline Inventory Hosting & Management
 * Airline Scheduling
 * Internet Booking Engines for reservation of flight, hotel, land transport and additional product reservations
 * Direct Travel Agent Reservations
 * Direct Access from all GDS systems for reservations
 * Interline with other Airlines
 * Airport Departure Control System Module
 * PNL export to other Airport Departures Control Systems
 * Airport APIS (APP) transmissions
 * Reservation Reporting Modules
 * 3rd party system interfaces
 * Scalable database system for all sizes of airline
 * Hosting of other systems

How do reservation systems work? A reservation system allows for an entire airline compnay to connect to eachother through a massive data base. Because the dadtabase is web-based, it makes booking easier, and can be done from anywhere ib the world. People are able to log in onto the website, give their information, put in dates, chose seats and organize a flight for a few months away quickly and easily. Also, it assures seating, and eliminates the chance of loosing a flight ticket, becuase it is done electronically. Web-based ||  ||
 * Advantages || Disadvantages ||
 * Easy ||  ||
 * Reliable ||  ||
 * Quick ||  ||
 * Helping the economy ||  ||
 * Helping the planet; less paper printed
 * Flexible system ||  ||
 * All information on a data base ||  ||

[] Date accessed: 11/15/09

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