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by dudeWithAMood 296 days ago
Dude you do not understand how bad those "APIs" are for booking flights. Customers of Travelport often have screen reading software that reads/writes to a green screen. There's also tele-type, but like most of the GDS providers use old IBM TPF mainframes.

I spent the first two years of my career in the space, we joked anything invented post Michael Jackson's song Thriller wasn't present.

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Somewhere in the world there is someone crying while using QIK…
And yet, they exist, and software has been built on top of them already.