Global distribution systems are crunching and processing travel data at astonishing scales and speed, but travellers (and probably many in the industry) would not have any sense of how it is done.
Amadeus has its main data centre in Erding, Germany, while Sabre and Travelport‘s are located in the US cities of Tulsa and Atlanta respectively.
Protected like a military establishment, vital given the type of sensitive information running through its digital arteries, Travelport’s Data Center is housed in a rather ugly building (it doesn’t need to be pretty) on the outskirts of the city, close to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.
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