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  Our History
Galileo International, Inc. is formed to be a holding company for the business of the Galileo Partnership and becomes a publicly traded company in one of the largest technology Initial Public Offerings in US history.
Galileo Wireless gives mobile professionals or 'road warriors' access to their full itineraries (including air, car and hotel reservations), as well as the ability to change flight reservations.
Galileo BTMS is uniquely designed to meet the needs of the AP corporate user and their agency, with integral market fares and a component like construction allowing flexibility in its deployment structure.
www.cendanttds.com /galileo/en-ie/about/history   (2396 words)

  
  Galileo - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Galileo
Galileo then showed that the motion of a projectile is made up of two components: one component consists of uniform motion in a horizontal direction, and the other component is vertical motion under acceleration or deceleration due to gravity.
Galileo explained that the motion of a bird, like a projectile, has a horizontal component that is provided by the motion of the Earth and that this horizontal component of motion always exists to keep such objects in position even though they are not attached to the ground.
Galileo's attempts to explain biblical texts in the light of his theory were against the accepted opinion, and he was compelled by the Roman Inquisition not to assert ‘what seemed to contradict Scripture’ in 1616.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Galileo   (1542 words)

  
 Galileo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galileo positioning system, a European satellite navigation system, currently in development.
Galileo Galilei (opera), an opera by Philip Glass.
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, a high school in San Francisco.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galileo_(disambiguation)   (129 words)

  
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Galileo is a neutral provider of travel information with a vested interest in the success of all travel industry participants, including travel agents and travel suppliers, as well as the traveling public.
Galileo has repeatedly upgraded the hardware it provides to travel agencies, its huge computer database located in Denver, Colorado, where supplier data is managed, and the vast communications network linking travel agents to that database and to the suppliers.
CRS Regulation CRS rules, now administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation, were promulgated in 1984 in order to redress abuses by the airlines that were the sole owners of CRSs at that time.
www.astanet.com /govaffairs/docs/CuppTestimony0612.DOC   (4357 words)

  
 Galileo History
Galileo International, Inc. is formed to be a holding company for the business of the Galileo Partnership and becomes a publicly traded company in one of the largest technology Initial Public Offerings in US history.
Galileo Wireless gives mobile professionals or 'road warriors' access to their full itineraries (including air, car and hotel reservations), as well as the ability to change flight reservations.
Galileo BTMS is uniquely designed to meet the needs of the AP corporate user and their agency, with integral market fares and a component like construction allowing flexibility in its deployment structure.
www.galileo.com.au /galileo/en-gb/about/History   (2357 words)

  
 Galileo | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Galileo University is a centre of higher education in Guatemala.
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution.
Galileo est le futur système de positionnement européenGalileo Galilei est le nom italien de GaliléeGalileo est un système de réservation informatique dans le secteur du tourisme.
www.babylon.com /definition/Galileo/All   (563 words)

  
 Storia di Galileo
Galileo continua a elaborare prenotazioni di viaggio in tutto il mondo mediante i suoi CRS GalileoÒ e Apollo.
Galileo Wireless offre a chi si muove per lavoro l'accesso a itinerari completi di prenotazioni di aerei, auto e hotel, con in più la possibilità di modificare le prenotazioni aeree.
Galileo BTMS è studiato per rispondere alle esigenze delle aziende e delle loro agenzie - in particolare, informazioni integrali sulle tariffe in vigore e un meccanismo di costruzione a componenti che offre flessibilità nella struttura di deployment.
www.galileo.com /galileo/it-it/about/History   (2015 words)

  
 Galileo History
Galileo Switzerland AG is replacing OPAL and TOURBO successfully with Umbrella NT and CETS.
Galileo International signs full content deals with British Airways and Swiss which ensure Galileo Travel Agents as first the full content in the CRS of these Airlines.
Galileo Leisure is successfully launched in the market and is one of the first real synergies out of the Cendant Family.
www.galileo.com /galileo/en-ch/about/History   (610 words)

  
 Galileo International's First Year 2000 North American Air Travel Booked in Connecticut Travel Agency
Galileo's Y2K team had been preparing for this important Y2K horizon date since 1995 by carefully testing and remediating all of its systems.
Galileo International's Galileo CRS, which serves Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, began processing Year 2000 air reservations on Jan. 3, when 18 airlines, who had extended inventory periods, offered their first year 2000 travel inventory.
Galileo International is one of the world's leading providers of electronic global distribution services for the travel industry.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/02-09-1999/0000866829   (785 words)

  
 Driving Costs Out And Bringing Value In - UpLink - Express Travel & Tourism
Galileo, for example, reaches out to 193,000 terminal points of 47,000 travel agencies across 115 countries around the globe, bringing to them live content of over 500 airlines, 50,000 hotel properties, 430 tour operators, 31 car rental companies, and a lot more.
As a CRS company, Galileo is an integral part of the value chain and recognises the challenges faced by its customers, be it the suppliers or travel agents.
Galileo's approach has been similar with the suppliers, who are fighting hard to reduce distribution and operations costs.
www.expresstravelandtourism.com /200312/uplink01.shtml   (1123 words)

  
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Galileo, which developed and operates the Apollo computer reservation system (CRS), has begun the search for a financial advisor to investigate options and make a recommendation on the firm’s future.
Apollo is the CRS predominantly used by travel agencies in the United States and Europe.
Galileo’s Apollo CRS competes directly with Sabre Holdings, which owns a 70% stake of Travelocity.
www.eprairie.com /printer/article.asp?newsletterID=959   (258 words)

  
 Galileo (CRS) / Computer system - Computerit-solutions.com
The computer reservation system (CRS) Galileo came out from that 1971 by United Airlines created Apollo CRS, which for the simplified, reservation of flights and seat reservations first for the own sales offices was introduced.
After the stock exchange start in the year 1997 those became Galileo international in October 2001 a 100%ige daughter of the Cendant corporation and is there meanwhile an important member of the Travel distribution services, which in the autumn 2006 under the name Travelport abgespalten as independent, quoted enterprise to become were.
Galileo is known as a multi-access system; so named as it is able to access the...
www.computerit-solutions.com /g/galileo-crs.html   (321 words)

  
 Passenger Rail Questions and Answers
Our goal in CRS rulemakings has been to prevent practices that were likely to harm consumers by substantially reducing airline competition or by giving travel agents and their customers inaccurate or misleading information on airline services.
Galileo first established its Momentum program, which gave airlines a 20 percent reduction in booking fees for tickets sold through participating travel agencies, if the airlines agreed to give Galileo access to all of their publicly-available fares.
Because we are essentially deregulating the CRS business notwithstanding the systems’ market power, we decided to adopt the parity and most-favored-nation clause prohibitions for a period long enough allow affected parties to respond to the transition to complete deregulation.
www.dot.gov /affairs/ComputerReservationsSystem.htm   (18766 words)

  
 The battle behind airfare bookings - Aviation - MSNBC.com
Galileo is now owned by Cendant Corp., though it retains a marketing deal with former parent United.
She contends that the CRS system is an oligopoly and deregulation would essentially give the systems unlimited leverage to raise fees.
Sabre and Galileo have deep ties throughout the travel industry and profits from the offline travel sector, while their online entries have extensive CRS ties and remain competitive.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3073534   (1545 words)

  
 Galileo International Tells USDOT: Modified Computer Reservation System (CRS) Rules Necessary To Protect Consumers and ...
Galileo's response to DOT included reports by economists, including three currently or recently affiliated with Economists Incorporated, all of who have prior experience analyzing the CRS industry.
Orbitz is functioning as a CRS and its airline owners are using Orbitz strategically to control the market, hurt competition and limit wider consumer access to the best fares.
Galileo is a value-added distributor of travel inventory dedicated to supporting its travel supplier, agency and corporate customers and, through them, expanding traveler choice.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-21-2003/0001912293&EDATE=   (980 words)

  
 Galileo India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Training is a focus area and Galileo India has full-fledged training centres in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Calcutta, Trivandrum and Hyderabad.
The trainings are conducted by certified Galileo trainers who ensure that the travel agency staff is up-to-date on all product features.
Galileo India will also evaluate your knowledge of the Galileo CRS and give the official Galileo India Certification, if you successfully pass the evaluation.
www.galileoindia.com /training.shtml   (248 words)

  
 Internet Travel News - Galileo international debuts payment calculation tool for airlines and travel agencies
Galileo International, Inc., a global distribution services leader for the travel industry, today announced the launch of its payment calculation tool designed to eliminate the difficulties of manually determining agency compensation.
Galileo’s calculation tool simplifies and automates the complex process used to compute agency remuneration according to airlines’ varying policies, which have evolved beyond the awarding of a simple percentage rate of base fares to travel agencies.
Galileo will keep an up-to-date account of each participating airline’s criteria and then will apply that criteria to each ticketed transaction issued from the Galileo CRS.
www.breakingtravelnews.com /article/1462   (470 words)

  
 Galileo Benelux, marktleider geautomatiseerde reserveringsdiensten voor Belgische reisagenten
Galileo Benelux, marktleider geautomatiseerde reserveringsdiensten voor Belgische reisagenten
Galileo International is een toonaangevende wereldwijde aanbieder van elektronische reserveringssystemen voor de reisindustrie.
In 2001 registreerde Galileo International meer dan 350 miljoen informatie verzoeken per dag, resulterend in meer dan 92 biljoen transacties per jaar.
www.galileo.be /vl/profiel/international.php   (225 words)

  
 Galileo Hellas
Galileo's relationships with hundreds of airlines give you the competitive edge by guaranteeing you the most up-to-date information.
The Galileo 360º Fares comprehensive database consists of millions of fares that is updates automatically to ensure that your agents always have the very latest information at their fingertips.
Galileo Enhanced Itinerary is a comprehensive and powerful tool that combines all relevant information regarding a customer's travel schedule (details of flight, hotel, car and tour reservations, together with daily or weekly rates for car and hotel reservations).
www.galileo.gr /products_main_en.htm   (4689 words)

  
 Galileo International Partnership and Apollo Galileo USA Partnership
Galileo is also required to provide the subscriber with "appropriate and sufficient internal training in Subscriber's use of leased Apollo Equipment and Apollo Services" (Apollo Reservations and Ticketing Service Rider, Article 3.A).
Galileo considered the standard pricing contracts and the productivity-based contracts that it entered into with subscribers to be bundled contracts because it provided subscribers with computer equipment and software, access to the database, access to the help desk, and training in the use of the cryptic codes necessary to make reservations.
During the course of the audit, Covia Corporation (Galileo) executed a total of 20 consents extending the period of limitations for the purpose of allowing the sales and use tax asserted as due for the period March 1, 1991 through November 30, 1993 to be determined at any time on or before June 20, 2001.
www.nysdta.org /Decisions/818671.dec.htm   (10702 words)

  
 Driving Costs Out And Bringing Value In - UpLink - Express Travel & Tourism
Galileo, for example, reaches out to 193,000 terminal points of 47,000 travel agencies across 115 countries around the globe, bringing to them live content of over 500 airlines, 50,000 hotel properties, 430 tour operators, 31 car rental companies, and a lot more.
As a CRS company, Galileo is an integral part of the value chain and recognises the challenges faced by its customers, be it the suppliers or travel agents.
Galileo's approach has been similar with the suppliers, who are fighting hard to reduce distribution and operations costs.
www.expresstravelworld.com /200312/uplink01.shtml   (1123 words)

  
 The Practical Nomad
CRS/GDS companies also sometimes distinguish their "CRS" business of hosting PNR's created by travel agencies from their business of hosting (in separate partitions) airlines' PNR's, but the terms "CRS" and "GDS" are frequently applied to both.
Of the other major airlines in the USA, American, Alaska, and ATA are hosted in Sabre; United is hosted in Galileo (Apollo); Delta and Northwest are hosted in Worldspan, and Continental and some other smaller airlines are hosted in the SHARES system run by EDS.
Galileo in turn uses the data in the AIRIMP message to create a PNR in United's Galileo "partition".
www.hasbrouck.org /articles/PNR.html   (3080 words)

  
 The Practical Nomad
CRS/GDS companies also sometimes distinguish their "CRS" business of hosting PNR's created by travel agencies from their business of hosting (in separate partitions) airlines' PNR's, but the terms "CRS" and "GDS" are frequently applied to both.
Galileo is also known in the USA and Canada by its "Apollo" brand name.
Galileo in turn uses the data in the AIRIMP message to create a PNR in United's Galileo "partition".
hasbrouck.org /articles/PNR.html   (3510 words)

  
 Galileo History
Galileo International was founded in 1971 as Chicago-based United Airlines introduced the Apollo® computer reservation system (CRS), for use in their own offices to automate seat reservation, booking and tracking.
In response to the growing need for CRS automation in Europe, The Galileo Company Ltd was incorporated by shareholders British Airways, Swissair, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Alitalia and Covia.
Headquarted in Parsippany, New Jersey, Galileo International, is one of the world’s leading providers of electronic global distribution services, connects 52,000 travel agency locations to 425 airlines, 23 car rental companies, 68,000 hotel properties, and a wide array of tour operators and cruise lines throughout the world.
www.galileo.com /galileo/en-gb/about/History   (278 words)

  
 Financial Mail - AN EVENTFUL JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD
Galileo International Inc was formed as a holding company for the business of the Galileo Partnership and became a publicly traded company in one of the largest technology initial public offerings in US history.
Galileo then launched XML Select, a data application programming interface that allows travel agencies, third-party vendors, consolidators and e-commerce and software developers to create their own high-volume Web booking engines and server-based applications.
Galileo Wireless gives mobile professionals or those on the road access to their full itineraries.
free.financialmail.co.za /report/galileo03/fgalileo.htm   (1421 words)

  
 Hospitality Net - Industry News - Galileo International's Time Machine Tests Year 2000 Readiness for Global ...
Included are the Galileo CRS with its router, the Apollo CRS, and the GlobalFares(TM) complex of the North American and International Fare Quote systems.
Galileo is using the Time Machine with selected vendors, agencies and suppliers for validation of its own software and hardware systems.
Supported by the company's testing group, Galileo International is able to accommodate customized testing by creating specialized test scenarios that can be applied to the system during the weekly load.
www.hospitalitynet.org /news/4001058.html   (650 words)

  
 The Timeshare Beat: Lexington Services Launches Galileo's Next-Generation Seamless Solution, Inside Shopper
With 108 brands and approximately 15,120 properties under contract around the globe, Inside Shopper provides a direct, real-time connection between a hotel's CRS and Galileo's 43,000 travel agency customers worldwide.
By interfacing directly through the hotel's CRS, Galileo-connected agents, online travel providers and corporate clients can access the same, up-to-the-minute information and last-room-available inventory offered through a hotel's internal reservation number, improving the level of service that travel agencies are able to offer their customers.
Galileo is a value-added distributor of travel inventory dedicated to supporting its travel supplier, agency and corporate customers and, through them, expanding traveler choice.
www.thetimesharebeat.com /2004/mar/0303-01t.htm   (617 words)

  
 MidwestBusiness.com: Midwest Business & Technology News
Galileo, which developed and operates the Apollo computer reservation system (CRS), has begun the search for a financial advisor to investigate options and make a recommendation on the firm’s future.
Apollo is the CRS predominantly used by travel agencies in the United States and Europe.
Galileo stock finished trading on Friday up $3.25 to close at $19.50.
www.midwestbusiness.com /news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=959   (358 words)

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