SCS Solars launches real-time booking engine SCS Solars Computing Systems Inc SCS Shares issued 45,366,550 Jan 11 2002 close $.120 Monday Jan 14 2002 News Release Ms. Sherry Boisvert reports SOLARNET ANNOUNCES LIVE BOOKING CAPABILITIES SolarNet has launched its new real-time booking engine. The addition of live booking capabilities completes SolarNet's consolidator fare management and distribution solution. Trans Am Travel is SolarNet's first consolidator customer to use the real-time booking engine, having been a SolarNet Livelinx user since February, 1999, and a SolarNet Livelinx*Plus user since March of 2001. Now 95 per cent of travel agencies worldwide, an estimated 450,000 travel agents, have instant access -- free of charge -- to Trans Am's fare inventories through SolarNet to: check seat availability; view fare rules; complete a live booking; and receive a confirmed passenger name record (PNR). Travel agents have desktop access to SolarNet 24/7 through their GDS simply by typing in the appropriate SolarNet GDS access code listed below:
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Trans Am, based in Alexandria, Va., is one of the largest airline ticket wholesale/consolidators in the United States. Trans Am has been serving the retail travel agent community for over 20 years, moving over one million passengers per year, offering airfares to approximately 500 destinations in 116 countries worldwide. Trans Am's airfares cover cities in all six continents, served by its 35 airline partners, from almost any city in the United States and Canada. "We are really excited about the innovation that SolarNet has developed allowing agents to fully book our airfares from any GDS using the SolarNet booking system," said William Gomes, Trans Am's operations manager. The official debut of SolarNet's real-time booking engine will take place at the United States Airline Consolidators Association (USACA) convention in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 24, 2002. WARNING: The company relies upon litigation protection for "forward-looking" statements. (c) Copyright 2002 Canjex Publishing Ltd. canada-stockwatch.com |