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by cratermoon 1379 days ago
Technically there's a third, Travelport, the smallest, and there are a few others that serve regional markets.

You're right that existing GDS systems have done nothing interesting for decades, though. Did you know that Sabre charges their customers on a per-API call basis? Airlines like to minimize the number of times they call into Sabre for that reason. You might imagine that the Sabre people are not especially motivated to make their API simple and modular enough to lower the number of calls required.

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>Did you know that Sabre charges their customers on a per-API call basis?

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