Talk:Galileo CRS

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I removed all of the following as it is inaccurate and not relevent to this article. It could be incorporated into the code share article.

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In Global Distribution Systems, such as Amadeus, Galileo, Worldspan, or Sabre, code sharing results in the same flight details, except for the flight number, being displayed on computer screens excessively forcing other airlines flights to be displayed on following pages where they may be missed by passengers searching for required flights.

Much competition in the airline industry revolves around ticket sales (also known as "seat booking") strategies. Travel agents have a preference for flights which provide a direct connection. Code sharing gives this impression. Computer reservations systems (CRS) also often do not discriminate between direct flights and code sharing flights and present both before options that involve several isolate stretches run by different companies.

Criticism has been levelled against code sharing by consumer organizations and national departments of trade since it is claimed it is confusing and not transparent to passengers, but thus far without any success.

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Galileo does not treat code shares any differently to other CRS. They are obvious to the agent booking, as there is a small marker in front of the flight number that indicates a code share. Unless specifically requested, non-stop flights will show up first, so the writers claim that this pushes suitable flights to later screens is inaccurate.

--Dmol 10:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Galileo is now owned by Travelport

Information on Galileo ownership is no longer up to date. Cendant has split-off their Travel Distribution Services (Cendant TDS), re-named it Travelport. Recently Travelport was acquired by private equity company Blackstone.

[edit] history

I added a history section to explain the context of CRS. This was a very hot topic in the late 1980's. Industry publications, such as Aviation Week, covered it possibly every other week. The youngster who doesn't know history well could easily not understand the battles of that era, like the CRS one. This is understandable but I seek to remedy that partially with the history section. It's just a start and could be improved. Archtransit 15:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)