Amadeus vs Travelport vs Sabre: Explaining Main Global Distribution Systems

There’s a dozen GDSs in the world, but 98 percent of the market is shared between the big three - Sabre, Amadeus, and Travelport - companies with different histories, geographic coverage, and technical capabilities.

0:00 Southwest isolation from GDSs
1:21 How Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport dominate travel distribution
3:41 Comparing three core GDSs
5:16 GDS APIs
6:30 NDC (New Distribution Capability)
8:37 Applying for GDS acceptance
10:10 GDSs are here to stay

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[LibardoLambrano]

Best video I've seen explaining GDS and their role in our industry.

[christianacelestine]

Wow the best explanation of GDS, thank you

[yaakovbendovid]

I must write, this helps a lot to understand the industry. Thank you.

[PositiveZahid]

Interesting, I love this video. I love your explanation. I have been working with amadeus api. Just completed testing environment and hoping to work with enterprise api.

[brkitdwn]

I use to work for Travelport, Sabre. A total of 24 years. Both comprehensive and fun jobs. Front office and backoffice.

[utekqtz]

Very helpful content, I am just starting in this area and I watch your channel a lot! Congradulations

[kurianjpanjikaran]

Great work done by the team who has made this video. Very informative.

[segunharuna]

Thanks for sharing this video. I have a question though, is there a multi GDS API out there? A single API that integrate Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport all together. Thank you

[sravansaisravan]

can i start my own online travel agency like agoda, by tie-up with one of these gds ?and how hard is it to get the api ?

[utsabghimire]

Can you explain about the difference between GDS and CRS?

[lolmed]

so when i have acces to a gds like amadeus i still cant book flights for my clients? ill have to ask the airlines permission one by one and then i can book the flights?

[bahaaaboelnaga]

Is it possible to send me the Difference between GDS and NDC

[masum]

Hey bro, Thanks for your video. Well i am a travel sub agency. I get my ticket From One of agent. But i didn’t get all time response from them. So i think i should get my own agent. So please help me, how i can get travel port id user id and Password that i can buy air ticket
Thanks

[marlencitaflores]

in latin america call centers are hiring young people to book a flight reservation. using orbitz, apollo, etc. 2 months of training is

[nikhilgoyal]

I do not understand why airlines using NDC's are still pushing info via GDS's. Doesn't that defeat the goal of reaching OTA's directly ? thank you in advance!