What Booking Engine Qantas Uses?

[tuppaware]

Riddle me this AFF'ers.

I googled and only found a really old thread on FT.
What booking engine does Qantas use?

 

[Katie]

Isn't it Amadeus? Or is that not a booking engine?

 

[serfty]

Qantas use a heavily tailored version of Amadeus to make bookings.

More generic versions of the Amadeus booking engine are used by Air Pacific and AA in Oz.

 

[ozmille]

Definitely Amadeus powered

 

[tuppaware]

Qantas use a heavily tailored version of Amadeus.

More generic versions are used by Air Pacific and AA in Oz.

Thankyou! Always the man who knows!

 

[niemann]

Qantas use a heavily tailored version of Amadeus to make bookings.

More generic versions of the Amadeus booking engine are used by Air Pacific and AA in Oz.

QF's booking engine is indeed Amadeus, but a version that was effectively developed by QF to cater for very high-frequency short haul (there are huge differences eg. being able to do a quick TP transaction when flights are cancelled etc). Amadeus are now flogging this to other short-haulers and it will become the dominant package IMHO. The functionality is based on the last version of QUBE, which started life as BA's BABS. The non-comms components of the software have been ported from TPF to C, and the front end is all Java now (except for green-screen mode). There: all you never needed to know!

 

[serfty]

... There: all you never needed to know!

That's all right, I still deal with data feeds from USAS!

 

[niemann]

That's all right, I still deal with data feeds from USAS!

OMG is that still going? Not that I'm dissing it....nothing beat those old assembler routines for speed. I'm skeptical the new code does too.

 

[serfty]

TCS support it - they are my contact 8/5 if things go wrong.