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KembaraXtra – Travel Terms: Abacus
This term is used in two connected ways: first, it refers to a former UK travel agents’ computerized data, accounting, and ticketing system (formerly linked to Mycrom Computers Ltd) and points the reader to Andromeda as a related system; second, it refers to a major GDS (Global Distribution Service) serving the Far East and based in Singapore. The entry states Abacus International is owned by a consortium of major Asian airlines (including All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, EVA Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Dragonair, Philippine Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines, SilkAir, and Singapore Airlines), and notes that Abacus is now backed by US-owned Sabre, although it was formerly associated with Worldspan.
This term is used in two connected ways: first, it refers to a former UK travel agents’ computerized data, accounting, and ticketing system (formerly linked to Mycrom Computers Ltd) and points the reader to Andromeda as a related system; second, it refers to a major GDS (Global Distribution Service) serving the Far East and based in Singapore. The entry states Abacus International is owned by a consortium of major Asian airlines (including All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, EVA Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Dragonair, Philippine Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines, SilkAir, and Singapore Airlines), and notes that Abacus is now backed by US-owned Sabre, although it was formerly associated with Worldspan.
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