International Air Transport Association

 

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. IATA's mission is to represent, lead, and serve the airline industry. IATA represents some 230 airlines comprising 93% of scheduled international air traffic. The Director General and Chief Executive Officer is Giovanni Bisignani. Currently, IATA is present in over 150 countries covered through 101 offices around the globe.

The IATA Head Office are located at 800 Place Victoria (Montreal Stock Exchange Tower) in Montreal since 1977 (having been located at Central Station (Montreal) since its founding) and the executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in Switzerland.

IATA was formed on 19 April 1945, in Havana, Cuba. It is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association, founded in The Hague in 1919, the year of the world's first international scheduled services. At its founding, IATA had 57 members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has about 230 members from more than 140 nations in every part of the world.

History Sabre

Sabre was developed in order to help American Airlines improve the way in which the airline booked reservations. By the 1950s, American Airlines was facing a serious challenge in its ability to quickly handle airline reservations in an era that witnessed high growth in passenger volumes in the airline industry. Before the introduction of Sabre, the airline's system for booking flights was entirely manual, having developed from the techniques originally developed at its Little Rock, Arkansas reservations center in the 1920s. In this manual system, a team of eight operators would sort through a rotating file with cards for every flight. When a seat was booked, the operators would place a mark on the side of the card, and knew visually whether it was full. This part of the process was not all that slow, at least when there were not that many planes, but the entire end-to-end task of looking for a flight, reserving a seat and then writing up the ticket could take up to three hours in some cases, and 90 minutes on average. The system also had limited room to scale. It was limited to about eight operators because that was the maximum that could fit around the file, so in order to handle more queries the only solution was to add more layers of hierarchy to filter down requests into batches.

Moving from Galileo GDS to Sabre GDS Conversion Certificate (IATA)

Course description:
A specially designed course for Galileo GDS users. This course will leverage your knowledge of Galileo GDS to teach you Sabre GDS in a fraction of the time.

Entry requirements for students:
Previous Galileo GDS experience

Qualification:
Other qualifications in Moving from Galileo GDS to Sabre GDS Conversion Certificate (IATA)

Awarding body:
International Air Transport Authority

Introduction to Sabre

Sabre is a computer reservations system/global distribution system (GDS) used by airlines, railways, hotels, travel agents and other travel companies. Sabre GDS is a unit of Sabre Holdings' Sabre Travel Network division. Current North American hosted carriers include Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, WestJet, Cape Air, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Mesa Airlines, and Midwest Airlines. Its current IATA code is 1S. However some internal areas are still under 1W.

The Sabre datacenter is in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was subject to the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II and is intended to be part of the predecor Secure Flight program for the selection of passengers with a risk profile, sometime in 2008-10.