The existing Southwest reservations system, known as SAAS, is a Sabre product that is based on the o

Southwest officials have said for some time that they anticipated that they would go with Amadeus for the domestic part of their reservations system, assuming the international portion operated well.
“We were pleased with the international launch, and we could not be more impressed with the experience of Amadeus and the capabilities of their product,” Southwest chairman and CEO Gary Kelly said in Southwest’s announcement.
“We are the largest domestic carrier in the United States, and we believe having one reservation system will provide a better operation for our employees and our customers as we embark on our very bright future domestically and abroad,” Kelly said.
Southwest’s domestic reservations technology has been limiting for the Dallas company. It couldn’t handle international reservations. It couldn’t handle “codesharing,” or selling reservations linking its flight network to that of another carrier. The codesharing it started lake tahoe vacation rentals with merger partner AirTran Airways took many months of computer work to allow.
The existing Southwest reservations system, known as SAAS, is a Sabre product lake tahoe vacation rentals that is based on the old Braniff Airways reservations system, much modified. (It s nothing like a modern Sabre product.) It worked well enough through the years since Southwest lake tahoe vacation rentals didn’t code-share with other carriers, didn’t fly internationally and didn’t need too much complexity.
In May 2011, it merged with AirTran, which did fly internationally and had a more sophisticated reservations system, Navitaire. The acquisition set in motion Southwest’s plans to fly on international routes, lake tahoe vacation rentals to codeshare and to use the technology to better run a lot of the airline’s planning and operations.
In April 2012, Southwest and Amadeus announced a contract for Southwest to use Altéa technology for the international part of its system. It didn’t include the domestic portion of Southwest’s route network, but Kelly and others suggested Altéa would be extended to the domestic reservations if the international reservations went well.
Until then, Southwest said it will continue operating two systems – the Altéa system for international flights and the legacy Southwest system for domestic flights lake tahoe vacation rentals – after AirTran is absorbed into Southwest and the brand is retired in December 2014.
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