IHCTM is authorized training centre for IATA/UFTAA Foundation, Consultant, Management and Senior Management courses as well as IATA/FIATA Introductory, Air Cargo Rating and Dangerous Goods Courses from IATA, Canada. In fact, IHCTM has the unique distinction of being the FIRST in the world to be authorised for the 4  IATA / UFTAA along with the 3  IATA / FIATA training programmes (a total of 7 qualifications).

CRS from VIASINC, USA

VIASINC stands for Vocational Instruction and Software Incorporated, one of the premier GDS training companies based out of USA and IHCTM in association with VIASINC has been offering training programmes since 1999. The online training system trains you to be competent in 40 hours in any one of the GDS which makes you eligible for an international certification.

You can choose from any one of the following CRS: Abacus, Amadeus*, Galileo*, Sabre* or Worldspan*

* AMADEUS (sm) is a registered servicemark of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution Company, Incorporated; GALILEO (sm) is a registered servicemark of Galileo International, Incorporated; SABRE (sm) is a registered servicemark of American Airlines, Inc.; WORLDSPAN(sm) is a registered servicemark of WORLDSPAN Travel Agency Information Services, Inc.

Here is a summary of course contents for Amadeus:

Subjects Covered: (in alphabetical order)

AIS, access type indicators, additional hotel entries, addresses, basic flight availability, booking a car at a passenger's destination, booking a hotel at a passenger's destination, building a complete PNR and ending transaction, canceling seating elements, car terms, changing and deleting PNR data, changing segment status, displaying the subfields of a PNR, encoding and decoding cities, airports and airlines, entering fare elements, fare displays, fare notes, flight sell, follow-up availability entries, frequent-flyer element, general remarks, HELP system, hotel segment modification, introduction to classes of service and basic restrictions, introduction to the PNR, itinerary pricing, miscellaneous Amadeus functions, name element, OSI elements, PNR management, PNR queues, practice building complete PNRs, rebooking itinerary segments, received-from element, retrieving a PNR from a similar name list, retrieving a PNR from the Amadeus database, return availability, SSR elements, seat maps, seat requests and wishes, signing in and out, specific seat request and seat wish, telephone element, ticketing, ticketing element, timetables, waitlist assurance, working through a PNR queue.

The course contents for Abacus, Galileo, Sabre or Worldspan are available on request on choice of relevant course module.

Note: You will be given a user name and password and a time frame within which you would have to complete your CRS training. On scoring a minimum of 85% you will be eligible for certification from IHCTM and/or from VIASINC.