IT+in+Airline+Reservation+Systems

=IT in Airline Reservation Systems= ======

[[image:http://phpholidays.com/images/airline.jpg align="left"]]What is Airline Reservation Systems?
The Airline Reservations System (ARS) was one of the earliest changes to improve efficiency. ARS eventually evolved into the Computer Reservations System (CRS). A Computer Reservation System is used for the reservations of a particular airline and interfaces with a Global Distribution System (GDS) which supports travel agencies and other distribution channels in making reservations for most major airlines in a single system.

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A database is used to keep track of all the flight details and passenger information. Airline companies are connected via a network, most probably a VLAN because they have branches around the world. People go to ticket offices and book their seat on a particular flight, on a particular airline on a particular date. The ticket seller then logs on to the database and looks at the particular flight and enter the customer's information and removes the seat from the database, or make it 'unavailable'. He/she then prints out the ticket so that the passenger has a hard copy.

Nowadays, airlines have a website that enables people to book a seat on-line, they will get an e-ticket.


 * Social/ethical issues:**
 * **Reliability** of the website
 * **Authenticity** of the website
 * **Security** of information being handled by airline companies
 * **Surveillance** and **Privacy** as they keep a record of your air travel to see where you've been, where you're going etc.


 * Title || Link || Summary || Contributed by: ||
 * Airline Reservation || Qantas || Just an example of an on line airline reservation form used by Qantas || Mohammad Ezmir ||
 * Information Systems on Airline Reservation || media type="youtube" key="ledptteinIU" height="315" width="560" || How IT is used in airline reservation || Mohammad Ezmir ||