Benefit of GDS air ticketing courses

• Apply mileage system pricing skills to international routings
• Read and interpret GDS displays relevant to mileage system pricing
• Define common fare construction terms and abbreviations
• Identify and price different journey types (including one-way, round/circle trip, Round-the-World and mixed class journeys
• Use the IATA Fare Formula to correctly price a journey
• Apply global indicators to routings
• Assess and apply air fare taxes
• Read, interpret and apply fare rules
• Converting between different currencies and NUCs
• Apply all minimum-fare rule checks in pricing itineraries
• Use side trips
• Add a manual fare to a GDS booking file
• Know how to use GDS to issue tickets for manually-priced reservations
• Apply the Lowest Combination Factor to quote the most competitive air fare
• Apply rule exceptions
• Construct and read a linear fare construction
• Decode and interpret each field of an e-ticket
• Issue electronic tickets

International Air Transport Association

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. IATA's mission is to represent, lead, and serve the airline industry. IATA represents some 230 airlines comprising 93% of scheduled international air traffic. The Director General and Chief Executive Officer is Giovanni Bisignani. Currently, IATA is present in over 150 countries covered through 101 offices around the globe.

The IATA Head Office are located at 800 Place Victoria (Montreal Stock Exchange Tower) in Montreal since 1977 (having been located at Central Station (Montreal) since its founding) and the executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in Switzerland.

IATA was formed on 19 April 1945, in Havana, Cuba. It is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association, founded in The Hague in 1919, the year of the world's first international scheduled services. At its founding, IATA had 57 members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has about 230 members from more than 140 nations in every part of the world.