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According to Wikipedia it seems like a lot of people use or used ITA: “This system has been and is used by travel companies such as Bing Travel, CheapTickets, K
by mruts 7y ago
According to Wikipedia it seems like a lot of people use or used ITA: “This system has been and is used by travel companies such as Bing Travel, CheapTickets, Kayak.com, and Orbitz, and by airlines such as Alitalia, American, ANA, Cape Air, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, US Airways, and Virgin Atlantic.”
- tyingq 7y agoThat's the shopping engine, which was successful, but only a small subset of what a TPF reservation system does...albeit one of the more complex pieces. ITA did build the full thing, but only Cape Air used it. The "full thing" being shopping, schedules, inventory, booking, cancel, change, check-in, etc.
- bogomipz 7y agoOh interesting so ITA is really just a retail front-end for TPF then? I guess I was misinformed about it as well.
- mruts 7y agoI was under the impression that ITA used exclusively Common Lisp to inplement their software. I could be wrong, though.
- lispm 7y agoOther parts were written other languages. ITA also used languages like C++ (reported to be roughly 50% of the line count for QPX) and Java (for RES).
- tyingq 7y agoThe customers shop using ITA. The ITA shopping engine gets schedules, inventory and updates inventory from/to the backend (often TPF). The shopping engine itself isn't trivial. ITA has the best shopping engine available.