Galileo Introduction

Vocational qualification

Online

£ 22/month VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Vocational qualification

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    3 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Are you an aspiring Travel Agent? Would you like to work in this ever busying career area? Galileo is a hugely popular GDS which most travel companies use. A GDS (Global Distribution System) is the powerful platform used to book flights, hotels and car hire. Learning a GDS has many benefits, getting this qualification could secure your ideal travel job! Galileo is part of the Travelport group of companies and as of 2006 had a worldwide market share of 22% for airline bookings. Galileo is used by travel professionals all around the world.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Online

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

This course provides you with a full introduction to the Galileo GDS system. Travel is a very competitive industry and whether you are studying this course to change roles.

This course covers:

Flight Reservations
Automated Fares & Ticketing
Car Hire & Hotel Reservations

You are beginning your career in Travel, having solid booking system foundations under you belt are essential to your success and will improve your employability.

You don't need any prior skills in the subject area to start this course but we do recommend an intermediate ability to read and write English and basic maths skills.

Upon completion of this course you will receive a certificate to use as proof of your competency in the software, which will be widely accepted by employers. Courses' Content Creator and awarding body is VIASINC




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2017

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Subjects

  • Airline Training
  • Galileo
  • OSI Elements
  • PNR elements
  • Encode
  • Decode
  • Airline alliances
  • SSR elements
  • Issuing EMDs
  • Timaticweb

Course programme

Lesson 1 - Course introduction, signing into Galileo, encode and decode
Lesson 2 - Displaying a PNR
Lesson 3 - Timetables, availability, schedules, access types
Lesson 4 - Return availability, availability change entries, airline alliances
Lesson 5 - Building a PNR
Lesson 6 - Practice building a PNR
Lesson 7 - General remarks, frequent flyer, mailing address, billing address
Lesson 8 - OSI elements, SSR elements
Lesson 9 - Cancelling and changing PNR elements
Lesson 10 - Advance seating requests
Lesson 11 - Seat maps and booking specific seats
Lesson 12 to 15 - Galileo Cars and Hotels I and II
Lesson 16 - Fare displays and rules
Lesson 17 - Pricing itineraries
Lesson 18 - Issuing tickets
Lesson 19 - Issuing EMDs
Lesson 20 - Queues
Lesson 21 - Queue Tasks
Lesson 22 - Calculator and currency functions, minimum connect times
Lesson 23 - Help system and AIS
Lesson 24 - Timatic
Lesson 25 - Timaticweb
Lesson 26 - Issuing EMDs
Assessment

There is one final exam to be taken when you are ready to sit the exam, like the course, the exam is online too. There is no software to install, you only need internet access! You need to get 85% or more to receive the certificate. Don’t forget that you can take the exam as many times as you need, so long as it is within your available training hours.

Galileo Introduction

£ 22/month VAT inc.