BY
COMPUTER SCIENCE
A BACHELORS DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COVENANT UNIVERSITY, OTA OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELORS OF SCIENCE (B.SC) DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.
March 2014
ABSTRACT
In recent times, Users of airlines have graduated from using a travel agent to book for flights, to logging on directly to the portal of any Airline of their choice that uses the Computer Reservation System (CRS), for bookings of flight, and now in most recent times, the use of mobile devices e.g.; phones, tablets etc.
This project takes us on a journey that depicts the evolution of Airline Reservation System, from the ancient times of the use of Travel Agents for booking, down to the present time of usage of mobile devices.
We go through the various systems developed, various architectures in view and review of past work on the SMS-based Airline Reservation System by other Journalists. We also view the systems designed available for a modern system.
We review the improvement upon the technology previously used and also, we show the various limitations on the system to be built along with the codes
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF AIRLINE RESERVATION. The need of Air-travel in the World cannot be over-emphasized, it is one of the biggest Markets in the World and evolution of technology has brought about changes in processes involved in booking flights. The history of Airline Reservations System dates back to 1950, when America Airline required a system that would allow real-time access to their flight details, and the integration and automation of its booking and ticketing.( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Airline reservations system). In 1964, SABRE (Semi-Automated