Global Distribution Systems Fares and Ticketing Course

About

IATA’s Global Distribution Systems (GDS) Fares & Ticketing course helps you develop comprehensive fare construction skills through a simulation of Sabre, Galileo, or Amadeus. Designed for travel industry personnel with basic GDS skills, this online training will help you become the office expert. Developed around travel industry resolutions and designed for self-guided learning with interactive simulations, you will learn to price and ticket challenging itineraries for all fare types.This interactive e-learning course will teach you how to price journeys for all types of fares using the Amadeus Global Distribution Systems (GDS). You will have hands-on practise using the interactive Global Distribution Systems (GDS) simulation tool, which will help you analyze GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing; read, interpret, and apply mileage and routing fare rules; and issue tickets. The simulation training is supported by an interactive workbook and reference notes on GDS commands, maps and key journey pricing terms and definitions.

Course enrollment

Enroll at EAA Authorized Training Center to study these materials with the help of a local trainer. This is computer-based, interactive simulation training, accompanied by an interactive workbook and reference notes on GDS commands, maps, and key journey pricing terms and definitions.

What you will learn

Upon completing this course you will have the skills to:

Upon completing this course you will have the skills to:
Analyze GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing
Identify and price different journey types
Read, interpret, and apply mileage and routing fare rules
Issue tickets

Key topics

Introduction to air fares, analysing itineraries and retrieving fares from a GDS
Limitations on indirect travel, side trips and surface sectors
Return trips in different classes of service and alternative fare break points
Lowest combinations, round-the-world journeys and class differentials