Coding and Decoding of Cities, Airlines, Airports, etc is the basic step in learning any GDS, and in this lesson, we will learn how to use Amadeus to encode or decode a particular city, airline, airport, country, etc.
In this lesson, we will start with a combination of examples and scenarios to help you understand the command.
- Mr. Smith wants to travel to Boston from London however the newly joined travel consultant does not know city codes to these cities to look up availability in Amadeus. But he has learned all commands to use Amadeus. He enters the below command to check the code.
DAN Boston
Once he enters the above command he gets below the result displaying the various codes for the city of Boston. Amadeus has a unique feature which displays codes not only for Airports but also for other major transport systems operating a particular city, this can be seen in list below.
If you observe the above image displaying results of Decoding command you will notice every city name and transport facility with Boston is decoded however an “A” in front of the code indicates the code for the airport and at the end of the line displays which country is the airport located in. In our case, BOS is code for an airport named Edward logan International located in the Massachusetts state of USA.
The encoding command can also be used for encoding airlines, airports, etc. Please see the below example where a traveller wanted to travel to London Gatwick and consultant was unaware of the code, one can type this command in Amadeus to get correct code for the airport.
DAN Gatwick
once you give the above command below result is displayed showing LGW as airport code for Gatwick.
In case you know the code and need to know which city or airport or airlines represent this code you can do so by using this command.
DAC BWN
Similarly, if you do not know the two-letter airline code for a certain airline you do not need to learn it by heart as all you need to know is the command to decode it or encode it. This
DNA Emirates
Below is the result which is displayed by Amadeus showing correct code of the airline.
Now if you know the code for a particular airline but need to know what is the name for that airline you will use the same command as there is no variation in this command and for encoding and decoding of airlines the command remains the same.
DNA B6
Further, if you need to know more formats in Amadeus for encoding and decoding other travel services like trains, hotels, car rental companies, etc you can refer to the help pages and command for same is as below, and this command is extremely important in your learning process or while using Amadeus practically.
HELP DNA
Once you perform above entry below result is displayed showing
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