Re: Travel Agent Booking Software

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From: David H. Adler
Subject: Re: Travel Agent Booking Software
Date: 23:12 on 17 Apr 2005
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> On 4/17/05, Smylers <Smylers@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > And a hateful side effect of this specification by airport rather than
> > location is that there's no easy way to request departures from 'any
> > London airport' -- you have to list "LGW", "LHR", etc separately.
> > Except that there are only 3 of these fields for providing acceptable
> > departure points, and London has more than 3 airports, so you have to
> > perform separate searches to check all of them.
> 
> Apparently the software hadn't heard of the code "LON", which means,
> as far as I know, "any London airport". I believe it's an official
> IATA code. Similarly for other useful codes such as "NYC" (which
> presumably expands into something like qw/JFK LGA EWR/ or the like).

If it doesn't handle those extrordinarily common cases, hate is
justified. This makes me wonder even more what software they're using.
It sounds like it's a web based thing, which, at least here in the
states, is quite uncommon, afaik. Sabre doesnt' have a web interface,
but it certainly lets you use LON and NYC and has a facility for looking
up the other airport codes.

Then again, it's probably been around longer than the people who
actually wrote that web thing. :-)

dha
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