Apollo - Expert

Price: £ 299
Duration: 90 hrs

This package provides you with comprehensive training in the Apollo GDS system.

It is suitable for beginners as well as those with some prior knowledge of GDS and will provide you with an expert level of knowledge in Apollo GDS.

This expert course covers the follow subject is great detail:

- Airline Reservations (parts 1 & 2) 
- Automated Fares & Ticketing 
- Car Hire 
- Hotel Reservations 

The course covers the SAME subjects as our 45 hour 'Introduction' course but in more detail and with more examples and exercises.

Subjects covered:

Navigation Tutorial
Module 1 - Airline Reservations Part I
Lesson 1 - Introduction, Sign In and Out, Work Areas
Drill 1 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 1
Lesson 2 - Encode and Decode
Drill 2 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 2
Lesson 3 - Introduction to the PNR
Drill 3 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 3
Lesson 4 - PNR Redisplay, Display PNR Subfields
Drill 4 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 4
Exercise 1 - Practice retrieving 5 PNRs
Quiz 1 - Questions on Lessons 1 through 4
Lesson 5 - Timetables, Flight Details
Drill 5 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 5
Lesson 6 - Flight Availability, Return Availability, Schedules, Shortcut Flight Info
Drill 6 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 6
Exercise 2 - Practice working with timetables and availability displays
Quiz 2 - Questions on Lessons 5 and 6
Lesson 7 - Booking Seats from Availability
Drill 7 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 7
Lesson 8 - Name Elements, Contact Elements
Drill 8 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 8
Lesson 9 - Ticketing Element, Received-From Element
Drill 9 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 9
Lesson 10 - Build and end a complete PNR
Drill 10 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 10
Lesson 11 - Cancel and Change Mandatory PNR Elements
Drill 11 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 11
Exercise 3 - Practice working with basic PNRs
Quiz 3 - Questions on Lessons 7 through 11
Lesson 12 - Mailing Address and Billing Address Elements
Drill 12 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 12
Lesson 13 - General Remark and OSI Elements
Drill 13 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 13
Lesson 14 - SSR Elements, Passenger Information Elements, Frequent Flyer Elements
Drill 14 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 14
Lesson 15 - Cancel and Change Optional PNR Elements
Drill 15 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 15
Exercise 4 - Practice working with PNRs
Quiz 4 - Questions on Lessons 12 through 15
Lesson 16- Advance Seating Requests
Drill 16 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 16
Lesson 17 - Seat Maps
Drill 17 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 17
Lesson 18- Request Specific Seats, Specific Seat Wish, Modify Seating
Drill 18 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 18
Quiz 5 - Questions on Lessons 16 through 18
Lesson 19 - Calculator and Currency Functions, Minimum Connect Times
Drill 19 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 19
Lesson 20 - Help system
Drill 20 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 20
Lesson 21 - AIS
Drill 21 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 21
Quiz 6 - Questions on Lessons 19 through 21
Exam 1 - Final Assessment Exam
Exam 1 - Final Assessment Exam - UK Students
Emulator - Apollo Emulator
Module 2 - Airline Reservations Part II
Lesson 1 - Advanced Availability Entries
Drill 1 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 1
Lesson 2 - Access Types
Drill 2 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 2
Lesson 3 - Direct Sell, Waitlist, Open/ARNK/Passive Segments
Drill 3 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 3
Exercise 1 - Practice working with 5 PNRs
Quiz 1 - Questions on Lessons 1 through 3
Lesson 4 - PNR Claim
Drill 4 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 4
Lesson 5 - Split PNR
Drill 5 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 5
Lesson 6 - Non-Homogeneous PNRs
Drill 6 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 6
Lesson 7 - Customer Profiles
Drill 7 - Concentrated practice of the entries in Lesson 7
Exercise 2 - Practice of advanced PNR concepts
Quiz 1 - Questions on Lessons 4 through 7
Lesson 8 - Queue Count, Queue Placement, Option Element
Drill 8 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 8
Lesson 9 - Queue Access/Exit, Remove/Delay Queued PNRs
Drill 9 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 9
Lesson 10 - Segment Status, Schedule Change, Waitlist Assurance
Drill 10 - Concentrated practice of the entries in Lesson 10
Exercise 3 - Practice working with queues
Quiz 2 - Questions on Lessons 8 through 10
Exam 2 - Final Assessment Exam
Exam 2 - Final Assessment Exam - Alternative Exam
Emulator - Apollo Emulator
Module 3 - Automated Fares and Ticketing
Lesson 1 -  Basic fare displays, carrier specific fares
Drill 1 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 1
Lesson 2 - Fare displays for specific dates
Drill 2 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 2
Lesson 3 - Additional fare display options
Drill 3 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 3
Lesson 4 - Fare display follow up entries
Drill 4 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 4
Lesson 5 - Fare notes
Drill 5 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 5
Quiz 1 - Questions on Lessons 1 through 5
Lesson 6 - Itinerary Pricing
Drill 6 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 6
Lesson 7 - Best Buy Pricing
Drill 7 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 7
Lesson 8 - Stored Itinerary Pricing
Drill 8 - Concentrated practice of the entries in Lesson 8
Lesson 9 - Pricing Options
Drill 9 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 9
Exercise 1 - Practice of itinerary pricing
Quiz 2 - Questions on Lessons 6 through 9
Lesson 10 - PNR Fare Elements
Drill 10 - Concentrated practice of the entries in Lesson 10
Lesson 11 - Ticketing
Drill 11 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 11
Lesson 12 - Issuing EMDs
Drill 12 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 12
Lesson 13 - Ticket Exchange and Refund
Quiz 3 - Questions on Lessons 10 through 13
Exam 3 - Final Assessment Exam
Exam 3 - Final Assessment Exam - Alternative Exam
Lesson - Ancillary Services
Lesson - Associated Electronic Miscellaneous Documents (EMD-A)
Lesson - Standalone Electronic Miscellaneous Document (EMD-S)
Exam - Ancillary Services and EMDs
Emulator - Apollo Emulator
Module 4 - Car Reservations
Lesson 1 - Car Location Lists
Drill 1 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 1
Lesson 2 - Display and Book from Multi-Company Car Availability
Drill 2 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 2
Lesson 3 - Display and Book from Single-Company Car Availability
Drill 3 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 3
Lesson 4 - Direct Car Availability Entries
Drill 4 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 4
Exercise 1 - Practice booking cars
Quiz 1 - Questions on Lessons 1 through 4
Lesson 5 - Car Availability Options
Drill 5 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 5
Lesson 6 - Car Sell Options and Direct Car Sell
Drill 6 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 6
Exercise 2 - Practice booking cars with availability and sell options
Quiz 2 - Questions on Lessons 5 and 6
Lesson 7 - Car Segment Modify Entries
Drill 7 - Concentrated practice of the entries in Lesson 7
Lesson 8 - Car Rate Features, Car Terms, Car Policy
Drill 8 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 8
Quiz 3 - Questions on Lessons 7 and 8
Exam 4 - Final Assessment Exam
Emulator - Apollo Emulator
Module 5 - Hotel Reservations
Lesson 1 - Hotel Location Lists
Drill 1 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 1
Lesson 2 - Display Multi-Property Hotel Availability
Drill 2 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 2
Lesson 3 - Display and Book from Single Property Hotel Availability
Drill 3 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 3
Lesson 4 - Direct Hotel Availability Entries
Drill 4 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 4
Quiz 1 - Questions on Lessons 1 through 4
Lesson 5 - Hotel Display Options
Drill 5 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 5
Lesson 6 - Hotel Points of Reference
Drill 6 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 6
Lesson 7 - Hotel Features Entries
Drill 7 - Concentrated practice of entries taught in Lesson 7
Lesson 8 - Hotel Sell Options and Chain-Specific Help Pages
Drill 8 - Concentrated practice of the entries in Lesson 8
Quiz 2 - Questions on Lessons 5 through 8
Lesson 9 - Book a Hotel Directly and from a Location List
Drill 9 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 9
Lesson 10 - Change, Add to, Delete from, and Cancel Hotel Segments
Drill 10 - Concentrated practice of the entries taught in Lesson 10
Quiz 3 - Questions on Lessons 9 and 10
Exam 5 - Final Assessment Exam
Emulator - Apollo Emulator

 

Included in the course:

 

  • - Training account creation

  • - 6 months access to your Training account

  • - 90 hours allocated time to complete your course within the 6 months access period

  • - 65+ lessons + 64 drills + 9 exercises + 20 quizzes + 5 final exams

  • - Free certificate*

  • - Technical support

 

Additional information:

 

  • - Have you used up the 90 hours need more to take and pass your course? OTT offers packages of 5 or 10 additional hours that you can buy directly online!

  • - And if you haven’t finished your course within 6 months? Don’t worry, you can buy an extra 1 months access online.

  • - All the courses and exams are online, there is no software to install, you only need internet access!

  •  - Please allow up to 48 hours after purchasing your course to receive login details.

 

* We are an approved reseller of the Viasinc GDS training programme and therefore we are authorised to issue certificates of completion. You need to pass the first five final exams with 85% or above to receive the certificate.
Don’t forget that you can take the exam as many times as you need, so long as it is within your available training hours.