The Amadeus Expert course provides you with extensive knowledge for operating the Amadeus Global Distribution System.

Developed by major airlines; Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines; it is a world leader in booking systems for airports, leading airlines and tourism agencies.

If you currently work in tourism and would like to enhance your skills or would like to start a career in tourism; then the Amadeus Expert course opens up opportunities for working in tourism agencies, airports and directly for airlines.

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Course Outline
Course Code: 
OTT05
Duration: 
70 hours - Access for 6 months
Delivery: 
Online
Certificate: 
Statement of achievement
Lesson Structure: 

 Airline Reservations Part 1

Lesson 1 - Introduction, signing in and out, work areas.

Lesson 2 - Encode and decode

Lesson 3 - Introduction to the PNR

Lesson 4 - PNR redisplay, subfield display

Lesson 5 - Timetable, flight details

Lesson 6 - Flight availability, return availability, shortcut fifo

Lesson 7 - Booking seats from availability

Lesson 8 - Name elements, contact elements

Lesson 9 - Ticketing element, received-from element

Lesson 10 - Build and end a complete PNR

Lesson 11 - Cancelling and changing mandatory PNR elements

Lesson 12 - Mailing and billing address elements

Lesson 13 - General remark and OSI elements

Lesson 14 - SSR and frequent flyer elements

Lesson 15 - Cancelling and changing optional PNR elements

Lesson 16 - Advance seating requests

Lesson 17 - Seat maps

Lesson 18 - Request specific seats, specific seat wish, modify seating

 Lesson 19 - Calculator and currency functions, minimum connect times

Lesson 20 - Help system

Lesson 21 – AIS

Airline Reservations Part 2

Lesson 1 - Advanced availability entries

Lesson 2 - Access types

Lesson 3 - Direct sell, waitlist, open, ARNK, passive segments

Lesson 4 - PNR claim, rearrange segments

Lesson 5 - Split PNR

Lesson 6 - Working with non-homogeneous PNRs

Lesson 7 - Working with customer profiles

Lesson 8 - Queue count, queue placement, option element

Lesson 9 - Queue access, exit, remove, delay queued PNRs

Lesson 10 - Segment status, schedule change, waitlist assurance

Automatic Fares & Ticketing:

Lesson 1 - Basic fare displays, carrier specific fares

Lesson 2 - Fare displays for specific dates

Lesson 3 - Additional fare display options

Lesson 4 - Fare display follow up entries

Lesson 5 - Fare notes

Lesson 6 - Itinerary pricing

Lesson 7 - Stored itinerary pricing

Lesson 8 - Best buy pricing

Lesson 9 - Pricing options

Lesson 10 - PNR fare elements

Lesson 11 – Ticketing

 

Car Hire:

Lesson 1 - Car location lists

Lesson 2 - Display and book from multi-company car availability

Lesson 3 - Display and book from single company car availability

Lesson 4 - Direct car availability entries

Lesson 5 - Car availability options

Lesson 6 - Car sell options and direct car sell

Lesson 7 - Car segment modify entries

 

Lesson 8 - Car terms

Hotel Reservations:

Lesson 1 - Hotel location lists

Lesson 2 - Display and book from multi-property hotel availability

Lesson 3 - Display and book from single property hotel availability

Lesson 4 - Direct hotel availability entries

Lesson 5 - Hotel display options

Lesson 6 - Hotel features entries

Lesson 7 - Hotel sell options and chain-specific help pages

Lesson 8 - Book a hotel directly and from a location list

Lesson 9 - Change, add to, delete from, and cancel hotel segments

 

 

Aims - the learning objectives of the course: 
  • Airline Reservation Part 1: 21 drills, six exercises, 10 quizzes and an exam
  • Airline Reservations Part 2: 10 drills, three exercises, three quizzes and an exam
  • Automatic Fares and Ticketing: 11 drills, three exercises, three quizzes and an exam
  • Car Hire: Eight drills, three exercises, three quizzes and an exam
  • Hotel Reservations: Nine drills, three exercises, three quizzes and an exam