What's the difference between Sabre, Amadeus and Travelport GDS?

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They are all fundamentally software platforms to sell airline seats to passengers all over the world. Like any software they keep fixing bugs and upgrading themselves with changing consumer needs and demands, so it is hard to isolate the difference to list them down. However, some broad differences do exist

Market Share - In general Amadeus is the largest GDS however Amadeus is very weak in the US. Sabre is strong in the US and North America but weak everywhere else. Travelport owns both Galileo and Worldspan. Galileo is fast loosing marketshare but used to be large in Europe, Africa, the middle east and Asia.
This is a well known picture of the three GDSs in airline groups.

Founding Airlines - Sabre with American, Australian, JAL et al
Amadeus - Lufthansa, Air France, Iberia, Continental Air, and Scandinavian.
Travelport - Delta, British, KLM, SwissAir, Alitalia, etc. Worldspan and Galileo together.

Customer portals - The three GDS also have a customer portal for end-users. Sabre calls its portal as Virtually There, Amadeus as Check My Trip, while Travelport uses ViewTrip and My Trip and more.

PNR - Sabre PNRs are created with letters from alphabet. Amadeus however uses alpha-numerics. It might not seem significant but the permutations possible increases 7 times (from 26^6 to 36^6).

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