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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

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Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat. In any case, travel agents get a good margin to earn money. Travel agencies add their own markups but still keep the prices lower than market rates offered by airlines. Private airfares vs published airfares: the core differences.

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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

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In 2016, the McLaughlin-Sherouse List was published, which ranked all industries in the US according to RegData’s Industry Regulation Index showing the most regulated ones. As stated on the official IATA’s website , its mission is “ to represent, lead, and serve the airline industry”. Being IATA-certified means a lot for travel agents.

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Airline Ticketing: Key Functions, Steps, and Players Involved

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This article aims to explain how ticketing works, what a ticket is, which accreditations an agency should have in order to issue tickets, and how to sell flight seats without having major certifications. For a passenger, who buys the flight via a website, it may seem like a single flow since everything goes so smoothly and fast.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

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A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. Basically, combining travel services in a bundle and developing a complete tour is the most important part of a tour operator’s job and that’s what distinguishes it from travel agents.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

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No matter the generation, every PSS has customer-facing solutions to communicate with users — be it a website, mobile app, chatbot, or kiosk at the airport. And the first step to this goal is turning websites and mobile apps into intelligent eCommerce platforms. Main PSS modules: three pillars of passenger services. Source: Ryaniar.

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

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This is the information you can act upon – customize offers to meet the exact, known needs of each traveler. Unlike EDIFACT, able to submit only fares and schedules to OTAs, the NDC standard allows for delivering comprehensive flight information to travel agents. Amadeus is a holder of IATA dual level 4 certification.