Chapter 1
1.1 Introduction
In today’s airline industry users or customers can reserve seat or book flight from any place in the world as long as they are connected to internet. The Innovation of technology has made traveling in the air easier for customers with airline reservation or booking just a click away.
The fastest means of transportation today is by air. Thousands of people flock the airline industry this days so that they can arrive their destination within a short period of time. Vehicles, train e.t.c cannot drive across the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, so customers tend to travel to other state, countries, and continents using air transportation. Their by with an hour’s interval the customers would have arrive their destination.
Therefore, if thousands of people use the aero- planes on a daily basis to travel from one place to another. Don’t you think there should be a system to help this user’s book flight, reserve seat, pay for flight, at their homes or at the airport?
Definitely yes. There should be because in a business environment customers come first, then the profits, it is obvious airline industries makes million of dollars on a daily basis from customers, so why not improve the market into a more technical oriented one. That is when airline reservation system came into existence. Users can reserve seat, book flight and set the date if their departure and arrival using a global distributed system called the internet. These airline industries have website whereby users can reserve and book for flights with ease, despite the geographical area, country or spoken language.
Before now Airline Reservation system used to be a standalone system, where by each airline has its own system disconnected from ticket agency or other operating airlines. But because of the Airline Deregulation period which occurred in the 1978 which theme was based on the importance of
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