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		StackBPoppin 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013) I've had to write an entire backend to interface with Sabre - using SOAP/XML - it was anything but straightforward. But yeah, you need surprisingly little information to book/cancel/view flights and PNR data.

t0mas88 3 months ago [–]

Similar for Amadeus, also very complex to interact with. It's all layers of XML and SOAP on top of text based protocols designed in the 60s or 70s.

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