Amadeus was originally created as a neutral global distribution system (GDS) by Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa and SAS in 1987 in order to connect providers’ content with travel agencies and consumers in real time.The first Amadeus system was built from core reservation system code coming from System One. At the first, the systems were dedicated to airline reservation and centered on the PNR (Passenger Name Record), the passenger’s travel file. Gradually the PNR was opened up to additional travel industries (Hotels, Rail, Cars, Cruises, Ferries, Insurance, etc.).
Amadeus GDS is one of the most preferred GDS systems today. Global travel management companies are either using Amadeus gds to access online travel contents including airline, hotels, transfers, sightseeing, cars and other value added services. Amadeus software system processes the highest number of transactions on a day to day basis. In the last 25+ years, Amadeus GDS has become the largest gds system and the biggest travel content aggregator around the world.
