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He's also overestimated the reliability of Airline booking systems. IT for every airline, creaks and groans loudly.
by Aloha 3y ago
He's also overestimated the reliability of Airline booking systems.
IT for every airline, creaks and groans loudly.
- hinkley 3y agoWhen did they finally get rid of the green screens?
- kmoser 3y agoWebsites are very modern interfaces to the Sabre system that was originally developed in the 1950s. The way it was described to me at the time I was working in the travel industry (20 years ago, yikes!): Sabre is essentially a command-line system, which means the API-like interfaces that have been grafted onto it over the decades are not nearly as stable and robust as we'd like them to be. I'm sure they've improved tremendously since I first used them, but the entire system is still based on very old technology that just wasn't meant to do what we're doing with it. Connect to it with an airline agent's terminal, though, and it's quick and reliable, just as COBOL-based banking systems are.