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Flexible Participation Levels

Galileo International offers you flexibility in the way you distribute your products, depending on your needs, goals, and system capabilities. Each of the options includes fare quote and ticketing functionality (dependent on local settlement plan participation).  Examples include:

• Schedule-Level Participation displays your non-stop and direct services in Galileo International’s neutral availability displays and constructs on-line and interline connections.
• Booking-Level Participation builds on Schedule-Level Participation, adding the ability to send and receive electronic teletype booking request messages. With Booking-Level participation, when a subscriber sends you a space request, you can return a positive or negative response.  In addition, Booking-Level Participation accommodates Special Service Requests (SSRs) for handling industry-standard requests for additional passenger needs.
• Full Participation provides the best value for distribution through the Galileo^® and Apollo^® systems. It minimizes transaction processing on your part. Full booking capability is supported, allowing you to provide immediate confirmation of sale. Through Availability Status Messages (AVS) you can open and close your flights in our systems as the situation warrants. This all adds up to make Full Participation your most cost-effective and efficient way to be fully competitive.

Improve Productivity and Increase Profits

GlobalFares™ - The world’s premier in-house fare quote service for airlines, offering comprehensive fare display and itinerary pricing functions in 116 countries around the world.  There are many reasons why more than 100 airlines around the world have selected GlobalFares™ as their in-house fare quote system. GlobalFares has become the fare quote system of choice for airlines because it delivers the performance you want – accuracy, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. GlobalFares has a worldwide reputation for quality and service. A comprehensive database of accurate and timely fare information – available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with easy-to-read fare displays and reliable itinerary pricing functions.

Extend Your Market Reach

• Schedules/Availability and GlobalFares - Essential business tools to distribute your products throughout the global travel marketplace
• Positive Acknowledgement - A powerful tool to increase customer confidence and sales, providing the subscriber with confirmation that the booking truly resides in your system
• Headlines^SM - A powerful tool to extend your travel-industry advertising budget
• Front Page News^{SM -} Delivering your message to the travel arranger at the start of their day

Manage Your Costs

• Electronic Ticketing - Ticketing at its best – delivering the cost-saving and market-intelligence advantages you expect from a sophisticated ticketless product. Electronic Ticketing can eliminate paper handling and the extensive paper trail associated with traditional ticket coupons – providing you with significant cost-savings. It also provides extensive market and customer information – never available before – reducing the costs of data capture as well.
• Claim PNR™ - An ideal way to streamline processing of carrier-originated bookings.  Claim PNR™ allows subscribers to automatically access existing booking records made directly with your airline and take ownership of them via a link. The Galileo^® or Apollo^® system then generates the new record locator (NRL) to all carriers involved in the booking.