GDS Trainer

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About us

GDS Trainer is a training simulator for the cryptic-mode reservation terminal. It lets you practise safely, at your own pace, before you work on a live system.

On this page
  1. Our mission
  2. Who is it for?
  3. What you can practise
  4. How it works
  5. Our commitments
  6. Contact us

Our mission

Learning a GDS is like learning a language: hundreds of short entries, precise formats and error messages to understand. In real life, agents often learn on the job, worried about creating a real booking, issuing a real ticket or blocking a real seat.

GDS Trainer removes that fear. Every trainee gets a complete practice environment where they can make mistakes, start again and improve, with no consequences for any customer, airline or agency.

Who is it for?

  • Travel agents and consultants starting out or brushing up on the basics.
  • Trainers preparing sessions and following their groups' progress.
  • Agencies, contact centres and tourism schools training several people at once.
  • Students preparing for a job in travel or aviation.

What you can practise

  • Encoding and decoding (cities, airports, airlines, aircraft), schedules and availability.
  • Building a full PNR: names, contacts, segments, SSR, OSI, remarks, end of transaction and retrieval.
  • Pricing (FXP, FXB, FXA, fare families), TST, ticket issuance and display.
  • Void, refund, exchange (ATC), EMD, queues, multiple office IDs and PNR security.
  • NDC distribution: offers, orders and payment.

Flights are built from real public data (airports, airlines, routes) to stay realistic, but all schedules, availability, fares and numbers are fictitious.

How it works

  1. Create your space: 14-day free trial, no credit card.
  2. Generate trainee accounts: each one gets a personal access link that works on one workstation only.
  3. Trainees practise on a full-screen command page; you follow their points, accuracy and activity.
  4. To continue after the trial: a team subscription you can cancel at any time.

Our commitments

  • Transparency: GDS Trainer is an independent, unofficial training tool (see Unofficial website).
  • Respect for your data: we collect the minimum needed, with no advertising and no third-party trackers (see Data protection).
  • Security: two-step verification, protection against password attacks, one workstation per trainee.

Contact us

A question, a demo for your team, a partnership? Write to us from the Contact page.