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Buyers must meet rising demand for data of quality.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 06-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 690 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Given the demands for data and the intricacies of today's reports, you may be surprised to know that airline data today is exactly the same as it was 20 years ago. The primary data elements are derived from two agency accounting system tables, tickets and segments. Tickets include authoritative elements like ticketing source and amount; segments carry the details, such as arrival and departure time that are required to construct the origin and destination.

Origin and destination data do not exist in sources like agency accounting systems. These systems are fed ticket and segment data from the global distribution systems as reservations...

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