Time to get real about real-time airfares The Navigator • By Christopher Elliott on Sunday, August 4th, 2013
You don’t have to be a consumer advocate to see that how you buy airline tickets — indeed, how you book travel in general — is stuck in the technological Dark Ages. If the various factions within the travel industry truly cared about innovation, they would have abandoned their antiquated mainframe reservations systems decades ago, when other industries embraced a little thing called the Internet. You might be surprised to learn that your electronic ticket reservation continues to be made on technology developed four decades ago.
http://elliott.org/the-navigator/time-to-get-real-about-real-time-airfares/ Has couple reader comments about mainframe reality; needs more. -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, inc.g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
