Live Booking
After the sub agent has selected the itinerary, he wants to search for and clicks on the ‘Search’ button he gets the options to search for fares and availability just as he gets in his online model. From here, the search is performed for Air and Hotel on to the GDS and to the negotiated fare database. For wholesalers, Amex is providing the negotiated rates for Hotel through Worldspan. This will help wholesalers to save time to enter contracts for hotels in the system. The system will search for a hotel in the following order, first the negotiated rates, and then Amex negotiated rates from Worldspan and then published rates from Worldspan.

  1. Search For Air Fares
  2. Search For Hotel Fares