The History of Flight Booking

It's still surprising how fast airline bookings are today. But, only 10 years ago things were different. So how did we get here? Learn about booking systems in this quick run-through a 70 year-long history of aviation reservation technologies.

• 1950s (SABRE) — 0:41
• 1960s (CRS) — 1:33
• 1970s-1980s (GDS) — 2:21
• 1990s (OTA) — 4:50
• 2000s (Metasearch) — 6:00
• 2010s-today (Mobile) — 6:28
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Sources:
[ 1 ] https://www.sabre.com/files/Sabre-History.pdf
https://retool.com/blog/air-travel-software/
[ 2 ] https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/senate-bill/2493
[ 3 ] https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/2796?s=1&r=52
[ 4 ] https://books.google.fi/books?id=6cgNDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT216&lpg=PT216&dq=GDS+market+share+1990&source=bl&ots=8BNRx-tKEa&sig=ACfU3U0mJlP24naBIsAYuxJCTyytLZ_b5A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXt7OK3rznAhUDxcQBHR1aANkQ6AEwE3oECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=GDS%20market%20share%201990&f=false

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