Capt Noodle

The opinion is mine, and I am talking about the Res, yield and CKIN side of things, not management systems or programming sides. My qualifications for this are simply that I have been using them since 1975 when I joined TN in Res on Taarsan I.

Since then I have been a user and trainer on Taarsan I & II, Gabriel II, Qantam, Ansamatic, Gallileo and had and have a working knowledge of BABS, Kriscom, Korean's system whatever the hell it is called and even Amtrak's system, most of the foreigners by osmosis.

I can also offload any passenger off any flight anywhere in the world should I see fit providing I have the name as per the original booking.

Also I believe there were a lot of very narked operations people when they heard of the sign-off.

My point is that the end user of the current Amadeus system is disadvantaged as multiple port pair availabilities are totally inadequate which is a sign of single hub euro origon. No doubt QF will address this as time goes on but for now, if one of my staff wishes to check availability of cheapest seats DPO MEL TSV, they have to check the 3 sectors individually, or book Y class and hope the Sabre system can find the cheapies on other flights.

However Capt N - Its what we have and we must learn to get the most out of it.

I actually think the decision to take on Amadeus was flawed, and this has been echoed by nearly every QF front end user from Airport to Yield Management and Res Seniors I have regular contact with. I will certainly give it time as the ex TN and QF systems crews have always been excellent at problem fixing and sys enhancement.

Also today I found more major problems with availability displays not showing available classes that were visible and bookable when one detoured into Qube directly.

Gaunty

For an IPARS system, Sabre is by far the best GDS system I have used. Have used Gal and been courted by Amadeus and find Sabre the most user friendly of the lot. The only drawback is the ticketing drive line for exchange tickets. It must be me because it is one of those things I just cannot get the logic or flow off. Thank God for clue cards.

The relative of a friend of a girlfriends second cousin (getting very Tasmanian there!!) would not have been the late Mr Jeffrey Brown would it? He was one of my corporate clients and a wonderful bloke. I know he was involved in the early development of Sabre (or Fantasia as it was then called in Australia).

Best regards

EWL